Alexander's Path
by Freya Stark
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Ancient Turkey : A Traveller's History
by Seton Lloyd
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The
Antiquities of Constantinople
by Pierre Gilles
Paperback: 300 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x
8.75 x 5.75
Publisher: Italica Press, Inc.; ; 2nd Revision edition
(January 1988)
ISBN: 0934977011
Architecture,
Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Centuries (Architectural History Foundation Book)
by Gulru Necipoglu
(Hardcover)
Ataturk
: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
by Andrew Mango
Book Description: In this major new biography of Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk, and the first to appear in English based on Turkish sources,
Andrew Mango strips away the myth, to show the complexities of one of the
most visionary, influential, and enigmatic statesmen of the century. Mustafa
Kemal Atatürk was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead
in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core
of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan,
and secured...
Paperback: 539 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.90 x
8.94 x 6.04
Publisher: Overlook Press; ; (November 2002)
ISBN: 158567334X
The
Baburnama : Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
by Jr. W.M. Thackston
Paperback from Modern Library
Book Published: 10 September, 2002
Crescent
and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
by Stephen Kinzer
Book Description: If Turkey lived up to its potential, it could rule
the world - but will it? A passionate report from the front lines
For centuries few terrors were more vivid in the West than fear of "the
Turk," and many people still think of Turkey as repressive, wild, and dangerous.
Crescent and Star is Stephen Kinzer's compelling report on the truth about
this nation of contradictions - poised between Europe and Asia, caught
between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic
future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian
citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions.
Kinzer vividly describes Turkey's captivating delights as he smokes
a water pipe, searches for the ruins of lost civilizations, watches a camel
fight, and discovers its greatest poet. But he is also attuned to the political
landscape, taking us from Istanbul's elegant cafes to wild mountain outposts
on Turkey's eastern borders, while along the way he talks to dissidents
and patriots, villagers and cabinet ministers. He reports on political
trials and on his own arrest by Turkish soldiers when he was trying to
uncover secrets about the army's campaigns against Kurdish guerillas. He
explores the nation's hope to join the European Union, the human-rights
abuses that have kept it out, and its difficult relations with Kurds, Armenians,
and Greeks.
Will this vibrant country, he asks, succeed in becoming a great democratic
state? He makes it clear why Turkey is poised to become "the most audacious
nation of the twenty-first century."
Paperback from Farrar Straus & Giroux
Book Published: 04 September, 2002
Evliya
Celebi in Bitlis: The Relevant Section of the Seyahatname (Evliya Celebis
Book of Travels: Land and People of the Ottoman Empire in the seven
by R. Dankoff (Editor)
(Hardcover -- April 1990)
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The
Fall of Constantinople 1453
by Steven Runciman
Paperback from Cambridge University Press
Book Published: December, 1990
In
Search of the Lost Mountains of Noah: The Discovery of the Real Mt. Ararat
by Robert Cornuke, David Halbrook
(Hardcover - September 2001)
Istanbul:
The Imperial City
by John Freely
Paperback from Penguin USA (Paper)
Book Published: July, 1998
The
Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire
by Leslie P. Peirce
Book Description: The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman
imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed
as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal
women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged
from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action
in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female
power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures.
Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in
its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore,
they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial,
monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial
Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions
of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the
hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control of the
sexually active.
King
Croesus' Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold Refining
by Andrew Ramage
Book Description: The fabulous wealth of the Lydian Kingdom
(in what is now western Turkey) was renowned throughout the classical world
-- in fact, Lydia's kings created the world's first coinage. The Harvard-Cornell
Sardis Expedition has unearthed a gold refinery from the time of King Croesus
(the sixth-century B.C.) where impure gold from the Pactolus River was
treated to produce pure gold and silver. Though the ancient treasure is
now gone, this volume illuminates the industry and technology that produced
the riches and offers the first authoritative survey of early gold refining
and assaying techniques from around the world. The authors fully describe
the excavation of the only known ancient refinery and the scientific study
at the British Museum to reconstruct the refining process. The unique evidence
from Sardis and accounts from historical sources shed light on ancient
metallurgy.
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; (June 1, 2000)
Lonely Planet Turkey (Turkey, 7th Ed)
by Tom Brosnahan, et al
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Lords
of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
by Jason Goodwin
Jason Goodwin, a young English journalist, writes history as if it
were today's breaking news, and with Lords of the Horizon, he delivers
an anecdote-filled and breezy account of the long, troubled career of the
Ottoman Empire. That empire endured for nearly 600 years and embraced not
only a large territory--stretching, at one point, from the border of Iran
to the gates of Vienna--but also hundreds of ethnic groups and three dozen
nations. United under the banner of a tolerant form of Islam, the Ottoman
Turks forged a culture that, Goodwin writes, "was such a prodigy of pep,
such a miracle of human ingenuity, that contemporaries felt it was helped
into being by powers not quite human--diabolical or divine, depending on
their point of view."
Drawing on memoirs by European visitors as well as standard histories
of the era, Goodwin traces the Ottoman Empire from its origins in the 14th-century
collapse of the Byzantine state to its centuries-long decline and final
collapse at the end of World War I. Along the way, he writes of the Ottomans'
addiction to wealth (and to hiding their gold in fabulous hoards), the
pleasure they took in holding picnics in their lush cemeteries, and the
prowess of their elite military both in battle and in organized crime.
("The janissaries were magnificent extortionists," Goodwin notes. "People
paid them not to burn their homes and business, then they paid them to
come and put the fires out.") Full of vivid detail, Goodwin's narrative
makes for an enjoyable introduction to this historically influential, but
little understood, culture. --Gregory McNamee Amazon.com
Paperback: 351 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
8.25 x 5.50
Publisher: Owl Books; ; (April 2000)
ISBN: 0805063420
Mehmed
the Conqueror and His Time
by Franz Babinger
A
Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity
by Michael E. Meeker
(Paperback - March 2002)
Not
Even My Name : From a Death March in Turkey to a New Home in America, a
Young Girl's True Story of Genocide and Survival
by Thea Halo
(Paperback - June 2001)
The
Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922
by Donald Quataert, William Beik, T. C. W. Blanning
Paperback from Cambridge University Press
Book Published: August, 2000 |
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The
Ottoman Steam Navy 1828-1923
by Bernd Langensiepen, et al
(Hardcover - April 1995)
The
Ottomans and the Balkans: A Discussion of Historiography (Ottoman Empire
and Its Heritage, 25)
by Fikret Adanr (Editor), Suraiya Faroqhi (Editor)
(Hardcover - April 2002)
A
Peace to End All Peace
by David Fromkin
Topkapi
Palace: An Illustrated Guide to Its Life and Personalities
by Godfrey Goodwin
Suleyman
the Magnificent and the Ottoman Empire
by Miriam Greenblatt
Classical
Anatolia: The Glory of Hellenism
by Harry Brewster
Hardcover: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
10.00 x 7.82
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd; ; (January 1994)
ISBN: 1850437734
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914
2 volume set
by Halil Inalcik (Author), et al
(Paperback - June 1997)
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Men of Modest Substance : House Owners and House Property in Seventeenth-Century
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by Suraiya Faroqhi (Author)
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Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
by Philip Mansel
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Ancient Anatolia: Fifty Years' Work by the British Institute of Archaeology
by Roger Matthews
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