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Albania
I.B.Tauris 2005; US$ 109.00Catapulted from totalitarianism to free market capitalism in 1991, Albania emerged from half a century of isolation to find itself an anomaly in Europe: a third world country economically, but first world in terms of education, literature and the arts. How has Albania transformed since then? Clarissa de Waal here explains Albania?s ?transition? from... more...
Albania Travel Complete Profile
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 14.40Whether planning your own trip to Albania, or planning someone elses, youll be equipped with the all-inclusive travel reportboth of our Travel and Points of Interest reports rolled into one. more...
Albanians
I.B.Tauris 2000; US$ 34.00This is the first full account of a country that, following decades of isolation, has undergone unprecedented changes to its political system: the collapse of communism, the progression to multi-party elections and the upheaval that followed the March 1997 uprising. Miranda Vickers traces the history of the Albanian people from the Ottoman period... more...
Among the Ottomans
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 57.00During World War One, the Ottoman Empire, one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history, faced severe challenges to its structure and existence, which eventually resulted in its dissolution. 'Among The Ottomans' introduces two unique diary accounts written by two generations of the same family in the declining years of the Ottoman Empire._x000D_ _x000D_ Written... more...
An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul
Haus Publishing 2013; US$ 17.95The great crossroads, Istanbul has absorbed several millennia of different influences; it is both modern and ancient, fluid and constant. more...
Army of the Sutlej 1845-6 Casualty Roll
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 11.99This medal, sanctioned in 1846, was the first campaign award issued to all ranks with clasps, although clasps had been awarded on the Gold Crosses and Medals issued to officers for the peninsular Wars. The basic design of this medal set a precedent in campaign awards that has been generally adhered to ever since. Another unusual facet to this medal... more...
Ataturk
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 19.95When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the first in-depth look at the intellectual life of the... more...
Between Two Empires
I.B.Tauris 2002; US$ 73.95World-shaking revolutions in Russia in 1905 and 1917, and Ottoman Turkey in 1908, the First World War, the Turkish War of Independence, the establishment of Azerbaijan. These are the huge 20th century historical events reflected in Ahmet Agaoglu?s life and writings. His life is a mirror of the tangled politics in a region where his role in establishing... more...
Biography of an Empire
University of California Press 2010; US$ 27.95This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories?ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East.... more...
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 27.95At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now... more...









