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  • Crafting History

    Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar

    Series series Ottoman and Turkish Studies
    It would not be an overstatement to say that Cemal Kafadar has transformed the field of Ottoman history. As a result of his pathbreaking books and articles, the field is experiencing a turn within itself as well as recasting its relationship with world history. This volume acts as a tribute to Kafadar and the important interdisciplinary work he has both done and inspired in the field. In line with ... Read more

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  • Partners of the Empire

    The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions

    by Ali Yaycioglu ...
    Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements. New institutional configurations emerged; constitutional texts were codified—and annulled. The ... Read more

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    The Great War in the Middle East

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  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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    The Greatest Siege in British History

    A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France—an overlooked key to the British loss in the American RevolutionFor more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British ... Read more

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  • Guilford Courthouse 1781

    Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 109 - Campaign
    A compact volume on Cornwallis's Pyrrhic victory in North Carolina, featuring illustrations throughout.By the Spring of 1781, the American Revolutionary War had dragged on for almost six years and the outcome still hung in the balance. When the British commander Lord Cornwallis launched his invasion of North Carolina in early 1781, his objective was to destroy General Nathaniel Greene's American ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Cultural Retreat

    Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867

    by Iryna Vushko ...
    An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Galicia from its annexation from Poland-Lithuania in 1772 until the beginning of Polish autonomy in 1867. Historian Iryna Vushko examines the ... Read more

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    Negotiating Authority in Italian Libya

    by Eileen Ryan ...
    When Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Catholic national identity through imperial expansion. After decades of acrimony between an intransigent Church and the Italian state, enthusiasm for the imperial adventure helped incorporate Catholic interests in a new era of mass politics. Others among Italian imperialists-military ... Read more

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    by Keith Brown ...
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    "The story of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (MRO) from its rise until the Illinden Uprising of 1903 . . . a fascinating account." — PoLARThe underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the Ottoman Empire between 1893 and 1903. Challenging conventional wisdom about the role of ethnic and national identity in ... Read more

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