This collection of Isa Blumi's essays comprises one historian's attempts at understanding the late Ottoman Empire through a series of studies of Ottoman Albania

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Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began t