Historia / Historia por país / Medio Oriente / Turquia y el Imperio Otomano

Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town

de Christopher de Bellaigue

"A finely written, brave, and very personal book." -Orhan Pamuk

In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue wrote a story for The New York Review of Books, in which he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of...

Gendered Identities: Criticizing Patriarchy in Turkey

de Fazilet Ahu Özmen, Rasim Ösgür Dönmez & Canan Aslan Akman

This book aims to analyze and deconstruct the forms of patriarchy embedded in Turkish society and politics. In this regard, it analyses how patriarchy functions and reconstructs itself by suppressing women and...

Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire

de Selcuk Aksin Somel

Here you will find an in-depth treatise covering the political social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one...

Istanbul: A Cultural History

de Peter Clark

Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: these are only three names that have been given to the city that straddles two continents, was the capital of two multinational empires and is today a vibrant commercial...

The Influence of the European Union on Turkish Foreign Policy

de Özlem Terzi

Rich in case studies and interviews with actors involved in policy making in Brussels, Ankara and Istanbul, this book questions the influence of the European Union on the making of Turkish foreign policy since...

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

de Roger Crowley

A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.

The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger...

State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945

de Benjamin C. Fortna, Stefanos Katsikas & Dimitris Kamouzis

Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of...

The Ottoman Empire 1326-1699

de Stephen Turnbull

The Ottoman Empire and its conflicts provide one of the longest continuous narratives in military history. Its rulers were never overthrown by a foreign power and no usurper succeeded in taking the throne. At...

Suleiman the Magnificent

de Andre Clot

Suleiman the Magnificent, most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. In a few years he led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of the Mediterranean...

The Last Crusaders: East, West, and the Battle for the Center of the World

de Barnaby Rogerson

The Crusades were the bridge between medieval and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the little explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for they made the...

Islam and the Politics of Secularism: The Caliphate and Middle Eastern Modernization in the Early 20th Century

de Nurullah Ardic

This book examines the process of secularization in the Middle East in the late 19^th and early 20^th century through an analysis of the transformation and abolition of Islamic Caliphate. Focusing on debates in...

The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

de Taner Akçam

Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted...

Foundations of Modernity

de Isa Blumi

Investigating how a number of modern empires transform over the long 19^th century (1789-1914) as a consequence of their struggle for ascendancy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Foundations of Modernity:...

The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire

de Alan Palmer

Like Charles II, the sick man of Europe was 'an unconscionable time dying.' Time and time again from the seventeenth century observers predicted the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, yet it outlived all its rivals....