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  • Grey Wolf-- Mustafa Kemal

    An Intimate Study of a Dictator

    by H.C. Armstrong ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Mustafa Kemal was known both as a vicious dictator and the iron-willed creator of modern Turkey however little was known about him and he was viewed as an enigma by many. Originally published in 1932, Armstrong delves into Kemal’s career and personal life in great detail showing how he moved between revolutionary, soldier and politician whilst also discussing his love of women, drinking and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Gallipoli

    The battlefield guide

    by Mat McLachlan ...
    The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.Each year, thousands of Australians visit Gallipoli to pay homage and see where their forebears fought, suffered and died. Anzac Cove, Quinn's Post, Lone Pine - the iconic places where our national legend was forged.In this essential and authoritative guide, practical information is combined with historical detail, alongside revealing ... Read more

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  • Ottoman Navy Warships 1914–18

    by Ryan K. Noppen ...
    Series Book 227 - New Vanguard
    A comprehensive, in-depth look at the warships of the Ottoman Navy of World War I, their specifications and operational history. The definitive English language work on the Aegean arms race.At the start of the 20th century the Ottoman Navy was a shadow of its former might. Years of defeat, nepotism, and neglect had left it with a mix of obsolete vessels, whilst the list of prospective enemies was ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Frontline Turkey

    The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East

    by Ezgi Basaran ...
    Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades.In 2011 President Erdogan promised to make a deal with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Partners of the Empire

    The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions

    by 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, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements. New institutional configurations emerged; constitutional texts were codified—and annulled. The ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • From the Sultan to Atatürk

    Turkey

    by Andrew Mango ...
    Series series Makers of the Modern World
    World War I sounded the death knell of empires. The forces of disintegration affected several empires simultaneously. To that extent they were impersonal. But prudent statesmen could delay the death of empires, rulers such as Emperor Franz Josef II of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. Adventurous rulers - Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Enver Pasha in the Ottoman Empire - ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Justifying Genocide

    Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler

    by Stefan Ihrig ...
    The Armenian Genocide and the Nazi Holocaust are often thought to be separated by a large distance in time and space. But Stefan Ihrig shows that they were much more connected than previously thought. Bismarck and then Wilhelm II staked their foreign policy on close relations with a stable Ottoman Empire. To the extent that the Armenians were restless under Ottoman rule, they were a problem for ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey

    Social History, Culture and Modernization

    by Sinan Yildirmaz ...
    When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War, the feudal system which had survived untouched in much of Anatolia began to change. Kemal Ataturk's task of building a nation 'from the people up' meant that the peasantry, by far Turkey's largest ethnographic group, became an important symbol of social cohesion. Here, Sinan Yildirmaz analyses the history of modern Turkey through the ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Islam and the Politics of Secularism

    The Caliphate and Middle Eastern Modernization in the Early 20th Century

    by Nurullah Ardic ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    This book examines the process of secularization in the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th century through an analysis of the transformation and abolition of Islamic Caliphate. Focusing on debates in both the center of the Caliphate and its periphery, the author argues that the relationship between Islam and secularism was one of accommodation, rather than simply conflict and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Music and the Armenian Diaspora

    Searching for Home in Exile

    by Sylvia Angelique Alajaji ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: from the identification of folk music with an emergent Armenian nationalism under Ottoman rule to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt

    Hybridity, Law and Gender

    by Elizabeth Shlala ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    Law and identification transgressed political boundaries in the nineteenth-century Levant. Over the course of the century, Italo-Levantines- elite and common- exercised a strategy of resilient hybridity whereby an unintentional form of legal imperialism took root in Egypt.This book contributes to a vibrant strand of global legal history that places law and other social structures at the heart of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • War and Nationalism

    The Balkan Wars, 1912–1913, and Their Sociopolitical Implications

    Edited by M Hakan Yavuz, Isa Blumi ...
    Series series Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud
    War and Nationalism presents thorough up-to-date scholarship on the often misunderstood and neglected Balkan Wars of 1912 to 1913, which contributed to the outbreak of World War I. The essays contain critical inquiries into the diverse and interconnected processes of social, economic, and political exchange that escalated into conflict. The wars represented a pivotal moment that had a long-lasting ... Read more

    $27.39 USD