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“zeynep devrim gursel”

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  • Portraits of Unbelonging

    Photographic Journeys Across Borders

    by Zeynep Devrim Gürsel ...
    A profound examination of how photographs can both sever and connect, tracing the paths of Ottoman Armenians across state and family archives.In 1896 the Ottoman sultan issued a decree that allowed Armenians—and only Armenians—to emigrate on the condition that they expatriate and never return to their homeland. A key step in this process was sitting for a photograph. The Ottoman state archived the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Image Brokers

    Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation

    by Zeynep Devrim Gursel ...
    How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images, Image Brokers ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world. News images, Zeynep Gürsel argues, function as formative fictions – fictional insofar as these images are constructed and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Operation Nemesis

    The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

    by Eric Bogosian ...
    A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide set in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history."A dramatic work of history that reads like a thriller." —Michael Bobelian, Los Angeles TimesIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Burning Tigris

    The Armenian Genocide and America's Response

    by Peter Balakian ...
    A New York Times bestseller, The Burning Tigris is "a vivid and comprehensive account" ( Los Angeles Times) of the Armenian Genocide and America's response.Award-winning, critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian presents a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Race and Slavery in the Middle East

    Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean

    Edited by Terence Walz, Kenneth M. Cuno ...
    In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and on abolitionist efforts to end the slave trade, and most have relied heavily on western language ... Read more

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  • The Tropical Utopia Khartoum

    British Colony 1898-1910

    by Marina d'Errico ...
    An ideal city to be rebuilt from scratch where two rivers flow into one another to give birth to the great Nile. An elite team of designers. The progressive utopia of urban planners and doctors between the 19th and 20th centuries, coming to grips with the demographic explosion and with the white man’s civilizing mission. These are a few of the elements that come into play in the British ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Turkey

    Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950

    by Ugur Ümit Üngör ...
    The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Armenian Genocide

    A Complete History

    by Raymond Kévorkian ...
    The Armenian Genocide was one of the greatest atrocities of the twentieth century, an episode in which up to 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives. In this major new history, the renowned historian Raymond Kevorkian provides an authoritative account of the origins, events and consequences of the years 1915 and 1916. He considers the role that the Armenian Genocide played in the construction of ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • The Margins of Empire

    Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone

    by Janet Klein ...
    At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions. In an attempt to control remote Kurdish populations, Ottoman authorities organized them into a tribal militia and gave them the task of subduing a perceived Armenian threat. Following the story of this militia, Klein explores the contradictory logic of how states incorporate groups they ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Remnants

    Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide

    by Elyse Semerdjian ...
    A groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors.Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Among Armenians, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD