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  • Zu Hause in Almanyaby Aysegül Acevit

    Campus Verlag 2008; US$ 16.30

    Hauptbeschreibung Was bedeutet Integration? Warum haben viele junge Türken so schlechte Chancen in Schule und Ausbildung? In welchen historischen Ereignissen gründen moderne Vorurteile und Missverständnisse? Wird die Türkei ein Teil der EU werden? Und wie wird deutsch-türkisches Zusammenleben in Zukunft aussehen? Aysegül Acevit wurde in der Türkei... more...

  • The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurdsby Joost Jongerden

    BRILL 2007; US$ 175.00

    In seeking to understand village evacuation in the Kurdistan region of Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s, this book focuses on the spatial aspects of the armed conflict. It tries to explain how settlement and resettlement policies and practices in Turkey have been part of a larger project of political and cultural engineering, based on a revision of a... more...

  • Turkey Society & Culture Complete Reportby World Trade Press

    World Trade Press 2010; US$ 28.50

    Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Turkey will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Turkey, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette. more...

  • Nomads in Archaeologyby Roger Cribb

    Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 42.00

    This book addresses the problem of how to study mobile peoples using archaeological techniques. more...

  • The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine Historyby John Haldon

    Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 30.00

    The dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul. Surrounded by foes who posed a constant threat to its very existence, it survived because of its... more...

  • Keramik und Kleinfunde aus Diokaisareiaby Norbert Kramer

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00

    This volumepresents the results of the ceramic survey in the Roman town of Diokaisareia in Rugged Cilicia (southern Turkey). At the end of the Hellenistic/beginning of the Roman period a new city was founded around the monumental temple of Zeus Olbios which had been the centre of the Olbian temple state in Hellenistic times. Numerous official buildings... more...

  • Portrait of a Turkish Familyby Irfan Orga; Ates Orga

    Eland Publishing 2011; US$ 14.57

    Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, who lived in the seclusion of a harem, as befitted a Turkish woman of her class. His grandmother was an eccentric autocrat, determined at all costs to maintain her traditional habits. But the First World War changed everything.... more...

  • Fragments of Cultureby Deniz Kandiyoti

    I.B.Tauris 2013; US$ 29.50

    Writing from within the cultural landscape of modern Turkey, 'Fragments of Culture' presents exciting new writing on the everyday, providing a corrective to the often skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. From adjustments to religious identity as the Islamic veil becomes marketed as a fashion item to the... more...

  • Turkey's Kurdsby Ali Kemal Özcan

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95

    The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader; it explores the nature and the organizational working of the party, from its growth in the late 1970s to its recent shrinkage. A variety... more...

  • East Encounters Westby Fatma Muge Gocek

    Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 124.99

    In 1720 an Ottoman ambassador arrived in France to observe Western civilization, and report on how it could be applied in the Ottoman Empire. Based on his accounts, this book studies the impact of the West on the Empire, and of this Ottoman embassy on the two societies. more...