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  • Central Asia In Historical Perspective

    by Beatrice Manz ...
    Since the demise of Soviet power, the newly independent republics are redefining their identities and their relations with the world at large. In Central Asia, which lies at the crossroads of several cultures, the emerging trends are complex and ambiguous. In this volume leading experts explore factors that have driven the region's historical development and that continue to define it today: ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Nomads in the Middle East

    by Beatrice Forbes Manz ...
    Series series Themes in Islamic History
    A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam, through the middle periods when Mongols and Turks ruled most of the region, to the decline of nomadism in the twentieth century. Offering a vivid insight into the impact of nomads on the politics, culture, and ideology of the region, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines and challenges existing perceptions of these nomads, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • The Ottomans

    Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

    by Marc David Baer ...
    An authoritative history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a diverse empire that straddled East and West.**"Panoramic and thought-provoking." —**The GuardianThe Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 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 SupplementThe 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

    by Homa Katouzian ...

    $40.99 USD

  • 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

    $37.79 USD

  • A History of the Ottoman Empire

    by Douglas A. Howard ...
    Covering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dissolution after the Great War in Europe, this textbook takes a holistic approach, considering the Ottoman worldview - what it was, how it came together, and how it fell apart. Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Ottoman World

    Edited by Christine Woodhead ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disintegration during World War I, it encompassed a diverse range of ethnic, religious and linguistic communities with varying political and cultural backgrounds.Yet, was there such a thing as an ‘Ottoman ... Read more

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  • A History of Iran

    Empire of the Mind

    by Michael Axworthy ...
    The definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today.**“Michael Axworthy’s deft untangling of the country’s history, from the advent of Zoroastrianism to the 1979 revolution, is a stunning achievement.” -**GuardianIran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran’s religious culture ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • 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

    $19.49 USD

  • Between Two Worlds

    The Construction of the Ottoman State

    by Cemal Kafadar ...
    Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anatolia and the Balkans ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds

    Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Rojava

    by Thomas Schmidinger, Andrej Grubacic ...
    Translated by Michael Schiffmann ...
    In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012 and 2018, the 'Mountain of the Kurds' (Kurd Dagh) had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war. After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Syrian army withdrew from the region, enabling the Party of ... Read more

    $7.29 USD