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  • Culture and Customs of Turkey

    by Rafis Abazov ...
    Series series Culture and Customs of Europe
    With exhaustive coverage on one of the world's most diverse and exciting countries, Culture and Customs of Turkey is an essential addition to high school and public library shelves. Illustrative accounts of past traditions help readers to understand contemporary culture today, covering such customs as religious beliefs, folklore, gender issues, art, performing arts, cuisine, and festivals. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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    Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    **A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century“Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan’s tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history.”—National ReviewFINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB’S ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Iran

    A Modern History

    by Abbas Amanat ...
    A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Egypt

    A Short History

    by Robert L. Tignor ...
    A sweeping and colorful account of Egypt’s 5000-year historyThis is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an ideal introduction and guide to Egypt's long, brilliant, and complex history for general readers, tourists, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922

    by Donald Quataert ...
    Series Book 34 - New Approaches to European History
    The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Dönme

    Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

    by Marc David Baer ...
    This book tells the story of the Dönme, the descendents of Jews who resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century. For two centuries following their conversion, the Dönme were accepted as Muslims, and by the end of the nineteenth century rose to the top of Salonikan society. The Dönme helped transform Salonika into ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The New Byzantines

    The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East

    by Sean Mathews ...
    Caught between wars raging in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Greece is an island of relative stability. Popularly considered the cradle of Western civilization, this is a Christian Orthodox state on the edge of the Islamic world. And, after a half-century of integration into NATO and the EU, Greece is now reabsorbing into the Near East, as the West fractures and new Middle Eastern powers ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Forgotten Voices

    Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya

    by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida ...
    In Forgotten Voices, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida employs archival research, oral interviews and comparative analysis to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Libya. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Iran in World History

    by Richard Foltz ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    Home of one of the world's most ancient and enduring civilizations, Iran has been at the nexus of world history for the past three thousand years. Situated at the crossroads between East and West, it has been marked by its encounters with other cultures and has influenced them with its own. From paradise gardens and Persian carpets to the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez, Iran's contributions ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Afghanistan - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    by Nazes Afroz, Moska Najib, Culture Smart! ...
    Series series Culture Smart!
    Afghanistan is situated at the crossroads of Asia, a strategically important location that connects the Middle East with Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Down the ages it has been subjected to continuous foreign invasion and intervention—from Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan, and as a pawn in the struggle between the British and Russian Empires—making its people wary of outsiders. That ... Read more

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  • Living in the Ottoman Realm

    Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries

    by Nabil Al-Tikriti, Zeynep Aydogan, Michelle U. Campos, Linda T. Darling, Eric R. Dursteler, David Gutman, Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Jane Hathaway, Hasan Karatas, Vangelis Kechriotis, Julia Landweber, Murat Cem Menguc, F. Ozden Mercan, Theoharis Stavrides, Darin N. Stephanov, Nicolas Trepanier, Charles L. Wilkins, M. Alper Yalçınkaya, Fariba Zarinebaf, Leslie Peirce, Amy Singer ...
    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

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Shah's Party

    And the Iranian Revolution That Followed

    by Robert Templer ...
    The Shah's Party colorfully captures Iran's oil-rich boom years. In 1971, eight years before the dynasty fell, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his glamorous wife, Farah Diba, hosted one of the largest gatherings of world leaders ever, celebrating the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian monarchy. But this stranger-than-fiction event, staged in a tented city by the ancient ruins of Persepolis, came ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD