Donald Quataert was in narrow terms an Ottoman labour historian and in wider terms an economic historian of the late Ottoman Empire. The articles in this book are distributed across topics that Quataert worked on throughout his academic life. An article takes up the topic of his thesis on "Famine in Turkey" that he prepared whilst still a master's student at Harvard University under the guidance of Stanford J. Shaw another contribution responds to his final work on Zonguldak mine workers. Most however have some relationship to the 19th century Ottoman economy Quataert's particular field of expertise. Of the 33 authors who have contributed the 32 academic articles that make up this book 17 were students at Binghamton. Eleven of them wrote their theses under Donald Quataert. There are 10 memorial pieces in this book. Quataert's work fell squarely within the research agenda of history from below and the people he worked on were in Hobsbawm's words "the sort of people whose names are usually unknown to anyone except their family and neighbours" and as a result the title of this book is History from Below. Donald Quataert was a remarkable person a warm enriching and moral presence in our field; his combination of good humor and clarity was inimitable. We shared much over the years including oncological tales. When he told me six years ago of the aggressive treatment he had undertaken he told me with a smile and relief that he felt had five more years in which to finish his projects. As in so many things Don was right.- Cornell H. Fleischer The University of ChicagoWhat a generous spirit Don Quataert was! He was genuinely interested in young scholars and always gracious in celebrating the work of others. He was warm funny and always intellectually engaged. We will truly miss him.- Palmira Brummett Brown UniversityDonald was a generous mentor to young scholars. I remember his encouragement during my first months in the Başbakanlık Arşivi so many years ago. He was a great colleague: thoughtful critical enthusiastic and clear-minded and articulate in his ideas. Donald will be very much missed and we are grateful to him for giving so much of himself while among us and for leaving such a rich legacy to be studied by us and the students to come.- Amy Singer Tel Aviv UniversityYAZARLAR: Rifa'At Ali Abou-El-Haj Elif Ekin Akşit E. Attilla Aytekin Gülhan Balsoy Palmira Brummett David C. Cuthell Axel B. Çorlu Deniz Cenk Demir Suraiya Faroqhi Elena Frangakis-Syrett Nurşen Gürboğa Jane Hathaway Nurçin İleri Huricihan İslamoğlu Charlotte A. Jirousek Amy Kallander Gül Karagöz-Kizilca Selim Karahasanoğlu Reşat Kasaba Çağlar Keyder Abdulhamit Kırmızı İrfan Kökdaş Heath W. Lowry Joyce Hedda Matthews Roger Owen Fulya Özkan Eliot Quataert Jean H. Quataert Ariel Salzmann Amy Singer Beatrice St. Laurent Mehmet Mert Sunar H. Tarık Şengül Baki Tezcan Meltem Toksöz Nalan Turna Barış Ünlü Immanuel Wallerstein Onur Yıldırım Fariba Zarinebaf Erik-Jan Zürcher