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  • Occupied Istanbul

    Urban Politics, Culture and Society, 1918-1923

    Edited by Yaşar Tolga Cora, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal, Gizem Tongo ...
    Series Book 5 - New Directions in Turkish Studies
    More than a century has passed since the arrival of British, French, and Italian forces in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The almost five-year-long occupation of the city that followed remains largely ignored in history writing in the former occupying powers, and is often marginalised in Anatolia-centric narratives of the Turkish War of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Portraits of Remembrance

    Painting, Memory, and the First World War

    by Margaret Hutchison, Steven Trout, Martin Bayer, Philip D. Beidler, Laura Brandon, Heidi Cook, Peter Harrington, Marguerite Helmers, Mark Levitch0, Caroline Lord1, Andrew Nedd2, Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark3, Sandrine Smets4, Gizem Tongo5, Jay M. Winter6 ...
    Series series War, Memory, and Culture
    Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflictAlthough photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public’s appetite for the ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • Midnight at the Pera Palace

    The Birth of Modern Istanbul

    by Charles King ...
    The inspiration for the Netflix series premiering March 3rd"Hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched, and deeply absorbing." —Jason Goodwin, New York Times Book ReviewAt midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.Yet in Istanbul—an ancient ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • A Shameful Act

    The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

    by Taner Akçam ...
    A landmark study of Turkish involvement in the Armenian genocide: A "groundbreaking and lucid account by a prominent Turkish scholar" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, exile, and mass acts of slaughter. Although Armenians and world opinion have held the Ottoman powers responsible, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    **'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New Statesman**The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity

    The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

    by Taner Akçam ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity
    An unprecedented look at secret documents showing the deliberate nature of the Armenian genocideIntroducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"

    A History of the Armenian Genocide

    by Ronald Grigor Suny ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversaryStarting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent—more than a million people. A ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Atatürk

    An Intellectual Biography

    by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu ...
    A biography of the founder of modern Turkey that chronicles the ideas that shaped himWhen Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science—and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself—would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the first in-depth ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire

    by M. Sükrü Hanioglu ...
    At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general readers a concise ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A Question of Genocide

    Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire

    Edited by Ronald Grigor Suny, Norman M. Naimark, Fatma Müge Göçek ...
    One hundred years after the deportations and mass murder of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and other peoples in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the history of the Armenian genocide is a victim of historical distortion, state-sponsored falsification, and deep divisions between Armenians and Turks. Working together for the first time, Turkish, Armenian, and other scholars present here a ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Fall of the Sultanate

    The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    Series series The Greater War
    The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the death throes of sultanate encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early twentieth century. This volume encompasses a full accounting of the political, economic, social, and international forces ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Great Catastrophe

    Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

    by Thomas de Waal ...
    The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 is still a live and divisive issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, shapes the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD