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  • Historical Dictionary of Turkeyby Metin Heper; Nur Criss

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 119.99

    The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Turkey explores the history of this fascinating country through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as on significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects. more...

  • Exploring Ottoman Sovereigntyby Rhoads Murphey

    Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 120.00

    Is it possible to identify the ‘essence’ of Ottoman kingship? And if so, what were the core motivating principles that governed the dynasty over its 600 year lifespan and how continuous and consistent were they?   Following the death of the dynasty’s eponymous founder Osman in 1324, 35 successors held the throne. Despite the wide range of character traits, dispositions and personal preferences, they led the expansion, stagnation and eventual collapse of the empire. Rhoades Murphey offers an alternative way of understanding the soul of the empire as reflected in its key ruling institution: the sultanate. For much of the period of centralized Ottoman rule between ca. 1450 and 1850 each of the dynasty’s successive... more...

  • History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Volume 1by Stanford J. Shaw

    Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 56.00

    This is the first book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. more...

  • Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Communityby Vera Costantini; Markus Koller

    BRILL 2008; US$ 199.00

    This book dedicated to Suraiya Faroqhi shows that the early modern world was not only characterized by its having been split up into states with closed frontiers. Writing history 'from the bottom', by treating the Ottoman Empire and other countries as 'subjects of history', reduces the importance of political borders for doing historical research. Each social, economic and religious group had its own world-view and in most of the cases the borders of these communities were not identical with the political frontiers.Regarding the Ottoman Empire and the other early modern states as systems of different ecumenical communities rather than only as political units offers a different approach to a better understanding of the various... more...

  • The Transformation of Turkeyby Fatma Müge Göçek

    I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 99.00

    In 1923, the Modern Turkish Republic rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, proclaiming a new era in the Middle East. However, many of the contemporary issues affecting Turkish state and society today have their roots not only in the in the history of the republic, but in the historical and political memory of the state's imperial history. Here Fatma Muge Gocek draws on Turkey's Ottoman heritage and history to explore current issues of ethnicity and religion alongside Turkey's international position. This new perspective on history's influence on contemporary tensions in Turkey will contribute to the ongoing debate surrounding Turkey's accession to the EU, and offers insight into the social transformations in the transition... more...

  • Turkeyby Andrew Finkel

    Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 12.95

    Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew Finkel, who has spent twenty years in Turkey writing about the country for publications such as The Economist and Time magazine, unravels Turkey's complexities. He sets the complications and transformations of present-day Turkey against the historical background of the Ottoman Empire, the secular nationalist revolution led by Kemal Ataturk, and repeated political interventions by the military, which sees itself as the guardian of Ataturk's... more...

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