The Voice of England in the East: Stratford Canning and Diplomacy with the Ottoman Empire
ISBN: 9781784537074 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the age of the Great Powers, with Russia and France at war, and the Ottoman Empire at the height of its influence and majesty, the British diplomat, Stratford Canning, arrived in Constantinople. The cousin of George Canning, he would be Britain's representative in the power politics of the Middle East for almost two decades, and was instrumental in the events which led up to the Crimean War and the events surrounding the "eastern question" of the nineteenth century. In The Voice of England in the East, Steven Richmond reconstructs the diplomatic priorities of the period through...
In the age of the Great Powers, with Russia and France at war, and the Ottoman Empire at the height of its influence and majesty, the British diplomat...
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132,22 zł |
Ottoman High Politics and the Ulema Household
ISBN: 9781349460045 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 17th century, the elite household (kap?) became the focal point of Ottoman elite politics and socialization. It was a cultural melting pot, bringing together individuals of varied backgrounds through empire-wide patronage networks. This book investigates the layers of kap? power, through the example of ?eyhulislam Feyzullah Efendielite."
In the 17th century, the elite household (kap?) became the focal point of Ottoman elite politics and socialization. It was a cultural melting pot, bri...
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KJV, Deluxe Gift Bible, Imitation Leather, Green, Red Letter Edition
ISBN: 9780718097882 / Angielski / Imitacja skóry / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The KJV, Deluxe Gift Bible is perfect for personal use or to give as a gift to celebrate special occasions like graduations, baptisms, birthdays, or achievements. This beautifully crafted Bible features leathersoft covers, gilded edges, ribbon markers, and the new Thomas Nelson KJV Font. Additional features include a special presentation page, the Words of Christ in red, colored maps, charts, and an easy-to-use dictionary-concordance. Invite your eyes to linger and engage God's Word with new, easy-to-read Comfort Print(R) KJV Bibles from Thomas Nelson.... The KJV, Deluxe Gift Bible is perfect for personal use or to give as a gift to celebrate special occasions like graduatio... |
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85,85 zł |
Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220: The Patronage of Sultans
ISBN: 9781474417471 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to rule Anatolia. A much-needed overview of the political history of the dynasty provides the context for the study of the built environment which follows. The book addresses the most significant monuments from across the region: a palace, a minaret and a hospital are studied in detail, along with an overview of the decorative portals attached to a wide array of different building types. The case studies are used to demonstrate the key themes and...
This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to rule...
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Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons
ISBN: 9780231163415 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Weaving together contemporary and critical political theory with political ethnography, Banu Bargu analyzes the death fast struggle as an exemplary though not exceptional instance of self-destructive practices that are a consequence of, retort to, and refusal of the increasingly biopolitical forms of sovereign power deployed around the globe. Bargu chronicles the experiences, rituals, values,...
Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high secur...
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160,65 zł |
Authoritarian Party Structures and Democratic Political Setting in Turkey
ISBN: 9781349341009 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conducting a comparative case study among four parties in the Turkish political system, this study shows how the variance in interest configurations and the power resources of local party activists constitute these changing patterns.
Conducting a comparative case study among four parties in the Turkish political system, this study shows how the variance in interest configurations a...
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194,97 zł |
Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean: Recording the Imprint of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Rule
ISBN: 9781409466789 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World empires such as the Aztecs and Incas side by side with the history of imperial Rome and the empires of China and Russia in the medieval and modern periods. Surprisingly little work has been carried out focusing on the evolution of state control and imperial administration in the same territory; approached in a rigorous and historically grounded fashion over a wide extent of historical time from late antiquity to the twentieth century. The empires...
The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World em...
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763,09 zł |
Sebastopol to Dagenham: Crimean War Letters of Captain Thomas Basil Fanshawe, 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment
ISBN: 9781911391029 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Sebastopol appears to be a succession of forts which the Russians are strengthening every day. A great number of the men are sick of the whole concern. No one looks forward to another winter out here with any degree of satisfaction'. Captain Thomas Basil Fanshawe served with the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment at Sebastopol during the Crimean War. The letters he wrote to his parents and siblings living at Dagenham in Essex provide a unique and unprecedented insight into a conflict often referred to as the 'Forgotten War'. They contain personal... 'Sebastopol appears to be a succession of forts which the Russians are strengthening every day. A great number of the men are sick of the whole... |
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Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500
ISBN: 9781474411295 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia.
This book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of... Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byza...
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406,98 zł |
Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide
ISBN: 9781503600638 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly 1,000 Armenian and 400 Kurdish children who had been abandoned by the Turkish administrators, left to survive at the orphanage without adult care. This memoir offers the extraordinary story of what he endured in those years--as his people were deported from their Armenian community, as his family died in a refugee camp in the deserts of Syria, as... When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years late... |
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The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities
ISBN: 9781784535452 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kurds of Turkey are not a homogenous group. This is something that is often overlooked.
The Kurds of Turkey are not a homogenous group. This is something that is often overlooked.
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661,34 zł |
Crisis Among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and the Eastern Question
ISBN: 9781784535094 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comprehensive analysis of Rhine Crisis of 1840
Comprehensive analysis of Rhine Crisis of 1840
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661,34 zł |
An Uncertain Ally: Turkey Under Erdogan's Dictatorship
ISBN: 9781412865388 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom of expression in the press, and wages war against the Kurds. While Turkey has historically been important geopolitically, it has become an outlier in Europe and an uncertain ally of the United States. An Uncertain Ally is a straightforward indictment of Erdogan. Drawing on inside sources in his Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the police, the book reveals corruption and money laundering schemes that benefitted Erdogan, his... Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom ... |
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An Uncertain Ally: Turkey Under Erdogan's Dictatorship
ISBN: 9781412865456 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
ISBN: 9780465032518 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire
In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul. Suleyman became besotted with her and foreswore all other concubines. Then, in an unprecedented step, he freed her and married her. The bold and canny Roxelana soon became a shrewd... The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire...
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Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese Young Phoenician
ISBN: 9781498517683 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese "Young Phoenician" delves into the history of the modern Middle East and an inquiry into Lebanese intellectual, cultural, and political life as incarnated in the ideas, and as illustrated by the times, works, and activities of Charles Corm (1894-1963). Charles Corm was a guiding spirit behind modern Lebanese nationalism, a leading figure in the "Young Phoenicians" movement, and an advocate for identity narratives that are often dismissed in the prevalent Arab nationalist paradigms that have come to define the canon of...
Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese "Young Phoenician" delves into the history of the modern Middle East and an in...
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235,62 zł |
Investigating Turkey: Detective Fiction and Turkish Nationalism, 1928-1945
ISBN: 9781618116284 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume seeks to understand more about the lives and histories of the general population of the Republic of Turkey during the years 1928 and 1945. During this period, concepts of Turkish nationalism were expounded in a top-down effort to rally the population to be united as Turks. Being a top-down effort, there needed to be mechanisms through which to transmit these concepts to the general population. This work assesses the level to which authors of indigenous Turkish detective fiction written between 1928 and 1945 attempted to aid in this process of transmission. Five series of this...
This volume seeks to understand more about the lives and histories of the general population of the Republic of Turkey during the years 1928 and 1945....
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American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire: A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Missionary Narrative, 1820-1898
ISBN: 9783837638080 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a metaphor-based analysis of the texts produced by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the Ottoman Empire from 1820-1898. It explores the conceptual metaphor networks inherent to official missionary discourse. The explication of these networks uncovers how the missionaries defined and depicted themselves and what they encountered. A synthesis of literary studies, linguistics, cultural history, and religious studies, the work analyzes the missionary narrative in its historical context by applying literary, narratological, and linguistic...
This book is a metaphor-based analysis of the texts produced by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the Ot...
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208,79 zł |
Accidental Orientalists: Modern Italian Travelers in Ottoman Lands
ISBN: 9781786940209 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first monograph in English to address Orientalism in the writings of Italian travellers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to do against a backdrop of comparative reference to works in English and French that preceded or were contemporary to them.
This is the first monograph in English to address Orientalism in the writings of Italian travellers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a...
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586,37 zł |
The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle Between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John
ISBN: 9781512601169 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, and now stood as the last bastion against a Muslim invasion of Sicily, southern Italy, and beyond. The siege force of Turks, Arabs, and Barbary corsairs from across the Muslim world outnumbered the defenders of Malta many times over, and its arrival...
In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and...
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101,75 zł |