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Cities in the World-System by Resat Kasaba 9780313278938
Booksplease Price: $149.19The contributors to this collection question the boundaries and limitations that are imposed on the study of cities by urban sociology. They do not disagree that during most of their history, the... -
The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy: The Nineteenth Century by Resat Kasaba 9780887068058
Booksplease Price: $50.02The Ottoman Empire is approahced through analysis of its political economy based on world systems theory. Relations with Europe constituted one of the key factors that shaped the dissolution of the... -
A Moveable Empire: Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees by Resat Kasaba 9780295989488
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $61.95A Moveable Empire examines the history of the Ottoman Empire through a new lens, focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's central... -
Ottoman Arcadia: The Hamidian Expedition to the Land of Tribal Roots by Bahattin Öztuncay
Booksplease Price: $215.30The English volume of the exhibition. In conjunction with the exhibition, the book examines the locations where the Ottoman Empire was founded, and the meanings attributed to these in the past and in... -
Party Building in the Modern Middle East by Michele Penner Angrist 9780295986463
RRP: $105.20Booksplease Price: $93.93Why was Turkey - alone of all the modern states that emerged from the Ottoman Empire - the only Middle Eastern country to evolve lasting competitive political institutions? While democratic processes... -
Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Damascus by James P. Grehan 9780295999906
Booksplease Price: $219.22Damascus was for centuries a center of learning and commerce. Drawing on the city's dazzling literary tradition-a rich collection of poetry, chronicles, travel accounts, and biographical... -
Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries by Hakan Ozoglu 9780791459935
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $135.74Kurdish nationalism remains one of the most critical and explosive problems of the Middle East. Despite its importance, the topic remains on the margins of Middle East Studies. Bringing the study of... -
The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone by Janet Klein 9780804775700
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72At 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... -
Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire by Nora Barakat
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.22In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of... -
The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone by Janet Klein 9781503600614
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.12At 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... -
Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire by Nora Barakat 9781503634619
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $119.34In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of... -
The Everyday Life of the State: A State-in-Society Approach by Adam White 9780295992556
RRP: $210.50Booksplease Price: $196.07Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and... -
The Everyday Life of the State: A State-in-Society Approach by Adam White 9780295992563
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $61.83Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and... -
Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey by Elise Massicard 9781503631854
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.22Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public officials, but local citizens do not always... -
The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-38 by Murat Metinsoy
Booksplease Price: $198.33Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Ataturk and his Republican People's Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic,... -
The Doenme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks by Marc David Baer
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $139.31This book tells the story of the Doenme, 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... -
The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-38 by Murat Metinsoy 9781009012140
Booksplease Price: $50.56Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Ataturk and his Republican People's Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic,... -
Return to Point Zero: The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas (Re)Make Empires, Nations, and States by Murat Somer 9781438486727
RRP: $53.63Booksplease Price: $50.12Analyzes Turkey's Kurdish conflict since post-Ottoman nation-building through recent peace attempts, from a novel perspective highlighting the dilemmas of the Turk majority and reshaping our... -
Return to Point Zero: The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas (Re)Make Empires, Nations and States by Murat Somer 9781438486710
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $135.74Analyzes Turkey's Kurdish conflict since post-Ottoman nation-building through recent peace attempts, from a novel perspective highlighting the dilemmas of the Turk majority and reshaping our... -
Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire by Assistant Professor of History Faisal H Husain 9780197547274
Booksplease Price: $75.78The Tigris and Euphrates rivers run through the heart of the Middle East and merge in the area of Mesopotamia known as the "cradle of civilization." In their long and volatile political history, the... -
The Doenme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks by Marc David Baer 9780804768689
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $36.15This book tells the story of the Doenme, 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... -
Governing Migration in the Late Ottoman Empire Ella Fratantuono 9781399521857
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $44.58How do terms used to describe migration change over time? How do those changes reflect possibilities of inclusion and exclusion? Ella Fratantuono places the governance of migrants at the centre of... -
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi by Aron Rodrigue
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.89This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated... -
Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey by Begum Adalet
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "laboratories" of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of... -
The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier by Chris Gratien 9781503631267
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57The Unsettled Plain studies agrarian life in the Ottoman Empire to understand the making of the modern world. Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the environmental... -
Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan Nicole F. Watts 9781479823062
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.37A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee In the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein used... -
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi by Aron Rodrigue 9780804786942
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated... -
Islamic Political Identity in Turkey by M. Hakan Yavuz 9780195188233
Booksplease Price: $98.73In November of 2002, the Justice and Development Party swept to victory in the Turkish parliamentary elections. Because of the party's Islamic roots, its electoral triumph has sparked a host of... -
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History by Dina Danon 9781503610910
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $35.12By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish community for over four hundred years, and had emerged as... -
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History by Dina Danon
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish community for over four hundred years, and had emerged as... -
Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History by Alan Mikhail
Booksplease Price: $61.17Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This... -
The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries by George Gavrilis 9780521898997
Booksplease Price: $186.21The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries explains why some borders deter insurgents, smugglers, bandits, and militants while most suffer from infiltration and crisis. Grappling with an issue at the core... -
The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries by George Gavrilis 9780521156240
Booksplease Price: $69.17The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries explains why some borders deter insurgents, smugglers, bandits, and militants while most suffer from infiltration and crisis. Grappling with an issue at the core...