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  • American Exceptionalism

    by Volker Depkat ...
    Series series American Ways
    The idea that America is exceptional, whether because of its founding creed, natural abundance, or Protestant origins, has been the subject of fierce debate going back to the founding. Rather than argue for one side or the other, Volker Depkat explores the diverse ways in which Americans have described their country as exceptional. Describing how narratives of exceptionalism have never been a ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Yearbook of Transnational History

    (2022)

    by Austin E. Loignon, Bradley J. Borougerdi, Volker Depkat, J. Laurence Hare, Berthold Unfried, Ky Woltering, Prof Dr Susanne Lachenicht ...
    The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This fifth volume advances the frontier of transnational history into early modern times. The six chapters of this volume explore topics and themes from early modern times to the fall of Communism. This volume includes chapters about the Huguenots and Sephardi Jews as ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Objects in Conflict

    The Material Culture of Intercultural Diplomacy, 1600–1830

    Edited by Volker Depkat, Harriet Rudolph ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    This book presents case studies that analyze the diplomatic uses and functions of robes, furniture, weapons, tools, jewelry, paintings, sculptures, books, food, and other material objects in early modern inter-cultural diplomatic encounters in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific world.Readers will gain insights into the material dimensions of early modern diplomacy and the cultural logics ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • How the World Made the West

    A 4,000 Year History

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    **An award-winning Cambridge history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global.“Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues Quinn, [who] invites us to . . . revel in a richer, more polyglot inheritance.”—The Boston Globe**AN ECONOMIST BEST ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Unfabling the East

    The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

    by Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

    Edited by Christina Riggs ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it

    by Suraiya Faroqhi ...
    In Islamic law the world was made up of the 'House of Islam' and the 'House of War' with the Ottoman Sultan - successor to the early Caliphs - as supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, in this ground-breaking study of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no 'iron curtain' between the Ottoman and 'other' worlds but rather a long ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Courtly Encounters

    Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia

    by Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

    Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth–fifteenth Centuries

    by Paul Wittek ...
    Series series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely interconnected writings on the period from the founding of the state to the Fall of Constantinople and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age

    The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World

    by Christine Woodhead, I.Metin Kunt ...
    Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as his fellow sovereigns Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII in the west. He greatly expanded the Ottoman empire, capturing Rhodes, Belgrade, Hungary, the Red Sea coast of Arabia, and even besieging Vienna. Patron and legislator as well as ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Hellenistic Economies

    Edited by Zofia H. Archibald, John Davies, Vincent Gabrielsen, Graham Oliver ...
    The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships. Focusing on the central period of the Mediterranean 330-30 BC, this book contributes substantially to the debate, by juxtaposing general questions of theory and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Nations Before Nationalism

    by John A. Armstrong ...
    In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century. He explores the effects of institutions — the city, imperial polity, bureaucratic imperatives of centralization, and language divisions — on the development of ethnicity. Political science furnishes the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD