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  • Food and Everyday Life

    Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Edited by Thomas M. Conroy, the book offers a number of complementary approaches and topics around the parameters of the “ordinary, everyday” perspective on food. These studies highlight aspects of food production, distribution, and ... Read more

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  • Living in the Ottoman Realm

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    Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English ... Read more

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  • Untold Histories of the Middle East

    Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries

    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics.With a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Iran and Palestine, the contributors consider ... Read more

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    Bible NT 11 (Unabridged)

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    In the eleventh hour, a question echoes through prison bars. John the Baptist, forerunner of the Messiah, wrestles with doubt. Is Jesus truly the promised one? Young's Literal Translation brings the power and purity of the Gospel to life in this dramatic reading of Bible NT 11. Journey with Jesus as he teaches, heals, and confronts the religious elite. Witness John the Baptist's final message, and ... Read more

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