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“cem emrence”

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  • Remapping the Ottoman Middle East

    Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam

    by Cem Emrence ...
    As a result of the formation of the modern Turkish state, nationalist narratives of the Ottoman Empire's collapse are commonplace. Remapping the Ottoman Middle East, on the other hand, examines alternative and disparate routes to modernity during the nineteenth century. Pursuing a comparison of different regions of the empire, this book demonstrates that the Ottoman imperial universe was shaped by ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Zones of Rebellion

    Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State

    by Aysegul Aydin, Cem Emrence ...
    How do insurgents and governments select their targets? Which ideological discourses and organizational policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory? Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence suggest that both insurgents and governments adopt a wide variety of coercive strategies in war environments. Zones of Rebellion integrates Turkish-Ottoman history with social science theory and ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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  • The Foreign Policy of Modern Turkey

    Power and the Ideology of Eurasianism

    by Ozgur Tufekci ...
    In the last three decades, Turkey has attempted to build close relationships with Russia, Iran and the Turkic World. As a result, there has been ongoing debate about the extent to which Turkey's international relations axis is shifting eastwards. Ozgur Tufekci argues that Eurasianist ideology has been fundamental to Turkish foreign policy and continues to have influence today. The author first ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Harem: The World Behind the Veil (25th Anniversary Edition)

    by Alev Lytle Croutier ...
    A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages.“I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” writes Alev Lytle Croutier. “People around me often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sister had been brought up in one.”Drawing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Crescent and Star

    Turkey Between Two Worlds

    by Stephen Kinzer ...
    "A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head." —Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia InquirerIn the first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer made the convincing claim that Turkey was the country to watch -- poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Storm from the East

    The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West

    by Milton Viorst ...
    Series Book 24 - Modern Library Chronicles
    America’s engagement with the Arab world stretches back far beyond the Iraq wars. According to Milton Viorst, the current conflict is simply the latest round in a 1,400-year struggle between Christianity and Islam, in which the United States became a participant only in the last century.Today, the Bush Doctrine aims to free the Arab peoples from political oppression and create a democratic Iraq. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Osman's Dream

    The History of the Ottoman Empire

    by Caroline Finkel ...
    The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire“Lucid, judicious and enjoyable.” (Times Literary Supplement)The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I.In this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It

    The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500–1800

    by Benerson Little ...
    Who were the world's most successful pirates, and why? "Interesting and very readable . . . Little clearly knows his subject well." — International Journal of Naval HistoryMore than just simple retellings of tried-and-true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through the 1800s to give an in-depth view of how pirates functioned through history. ... Read more

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  • Ottoman Navy Warships 1914–18

    by Ryan K. Noppen ...
    Series Book 227 - New Vanguard
    A comprehensive, in-depth look at the warships of the Ottoman Navy of World War I, their specifications and operational history. The definitive English language work on the Aegean arms race.At the start of the 20th century the Ottoman Navy was a shadow of its former might. Years of defeat, nepotism, and neglect had left it with a mix of obsolete vessels, whilst the list of prospective enemies was ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Civil Wars

    A History in Ideas

    by David Armitage ...
    A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day.We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe to our present day. Defining ... Read more

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  • Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian

    Edited by Anthony Slide ...
    “Ravished Armenia” and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901–1994) witnessed the murder of her family and the suffering of her people at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. Forced to march over fourteen hundred miles, she was sold into slavery. When she ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The History of Afghanistan, 1600-2012

    by Charles River Editors ...
    We have men and we have rocks in plenty, but we have nothing else. - Dost Mohammad Khan to John LawrenceIn the 21st century, as NATOs operation against the Taliban and al-Qaeda has dragged on for over a decade, the old maxim that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires has been revived. Indeed, the rugged, desolate, and mountainous region was a place that many Westerners likely could not have ... Read more

    $2.99 USD