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The land and people of Turkey The land and people of Turkey Spencer, William An introduction to a land where Greek, Roman, European, Arabian, and Turkish cultures mingle; a land which long looked to the East, but turned to the western world after World War I. OL102810W
Rebel land Rebel land Christopher De Bellaigue An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent … OL13633396W
Turkey Turkey Sarah Shields Draws readers into some of the world's most interesting and important countries with current, detailed information on virtually everything that defines life in a particular place, from economy and th… OL13762221W
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia (10,000-323 BCE) The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia (10,000-323 BCE) John Gregory McMahon,Sharon R. Steadman The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological, philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in th… OL16211292W
Conversion and apostasy in the late Ottoman Empire Conversion and apostasy in the late Ottoman Empire Selim Deringil "In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer to schism was regulation and control, administered in … OL16451733W
The prehistory of Asia Minor The prehistory of Asia Minor Bleda S. Düring "In this book, Bleda Düring offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC"-- OL16986852W
Smyrna, September 1922 Smyrna, September 1922 Lou Ureneck In September 1922, the richest city of the Mediterranean was burned, and countless numbers of Christian refugees killed. The city was Smyrna, and the event was the final episode of the 20th Century’s… OL17589262W
Meander Meander Jeremy Seal The author describes his trip down the Meander River, from the source in the uplands of central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, including historical, cultural, and personal asides. OL18027588W
The second Ottoman Empire The second Ottoman Empire Baki Tezcan "Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire, Baki Tezcan's book proposes a radica… OL18807346W
Partners of the empire Partners of the empire Ali Yaycioglu "Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, insti… OL19733473W
The burden of silence The burden of silence Cengiz Şişman "This is the first comprehensive social, intellectual and religious history of the wide-spread Sabbatean movement from its birth in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century to the Republic of Tu… OL19742436W
The political economy of the Kurds of Turkey The political economy of the Kurds of Turkey Veli Yadirgi In recent years, the persecution of the Kurds in the Middle East under ISIS in Iraq and Syria has drawn increasing attention from the international media. In this book, Veli Yadirgi analyses the soci… OL19743054W
Gallipoli Gallipoli Peter FitzSimons "Of course, the story of Gallipoli has been told before, but in this book Peter Fitzsimons, with the vibrancy and expert melding of writing and research that have become his trademarks, not only recr… OL20297652W
Turquie pré-ottomane Turquie pré-ottomane Claude Cahen xvii, 302 p. : 24 cm OL2126656W
Ottomans Ottomans Marc David Baer A history of the Ottoman Empire from before Osman I in the 1280s until after Abdülmecid II in 1924. OL25327816W
Lost Anzacs Lost Anzacs Greg Kerr This is a fascinating account of two very different Anzac experiences of World War I. Drawing on letters, diaries, and photographs from his grandfather and great-uncle, Greg Kerr relates the bitter e… OL2871269W
My grandmother My grandmother Fethiye Çetin As a child in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and well respected Muslim housewife. Decades later, her grandmother revealed the truth: she was by birth a Christian Armenian, and … OL28757191W
Ottoman Empire and Islamic tradition Ottoman Empire and Islamic tradition Norman Itzkowitz "This skillfully written text presents the full sweep of Ottoman history from its beginnings on the Byzantine frontier in about 1300, through its development as an empire, to its late eighteenth-cent… OL6697038W
Turks Of Central Asia Turks Of Central Asia Curzon 242 p. : 23 cm OL8330759W
Empires of the Sea Empires of the Sea Roger Crowley In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening sh… OL8387089W
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