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After Yugoslavia
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 65.00The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of the contributions can be seen as current attempts to... more...
Writing History at the Ottoman Court
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 21.99Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion. This volume shows how the writing of history achieved these effects by examining the implicit messages conveyed by the texts and illustrations... more...
Top 10 Istanbul
DK Publishing 2013; US$ 14.00Now available in ePub format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 I stanbul will lead you straight to the very best this city has to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this guide is the perfect companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists, from the Top 10 museums to... more...
Rise of the Ottoman Empire
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00Paul Wittek?s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely interconnected writings on the period from the founding... more...
Diplomacy and Displacement
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95This study presents a comprehensive, balanced and factually grounded narrative of the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations as a historic event that has been the subject of much distortion in the historiographical traditions of nationalist lore in Greece and Turkey, as well as in scholarly publications of various sorts elsewhere over the span of the... more...
The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 225.00In recent years, there has been growing interest in Turkey, stemming from the country?s developing role in regional and global politics, its expanding economic strength, and its identity as a predominantly Muslim country with secular political institutions and democratic processes. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging profile... more...
Loyal Unto Death
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 24.99The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the Ottoman Empire between 1893 and 1903. Challenging conventional wisdom about the role of ethnic and national identity in Balkan history, Keith Brown focuses on social and cultural mechanisms of loyalty to describe the circuits... more...
Herausforderung Nahost
Springer 2013; US$ 49.99Die Türkei gilt vielen europäischen Beobachtern alsBrücke in die islamische Welt. Abseits einer solchen terminologischenZuschreibung ist wenig darüber bekannt, welche faktischen Gemeinsamkeiten und Divergenzen die nahostpolitischen Herangehensweisen der Türkei und der EU aufweisen. Welche geografische Reichweite impliziert... more...
Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise is a new history of the disintegration and collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Commencing with the death of Tito, Meier presents an insider's guide to all the regions of Yugoslavia, including Macedonia, and in particular, emphasizes the crucial part played by Slovenia before the outbreak of war in 1991. Drawing... more...
Turkey-Syria Relations
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 114.95In 1997 Turkey and Syria were on the brink of war, engaged in a very real power struggle. Turkey was aligned with Syria's main enemy, Israel, and there were seemingly intractable differences on the issues of borders, the sharing of river waters and trans-border communities. In less than a decade, relations were transformed from enmity to amity.... more...









