Women in the ottoman empire

Women in the Ottoman Empire

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Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922

This major new survey treats the most important trends during the latter years of the Ottoman Empire. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has upda

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Islands of the Ottoman Empire

Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspec

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Islands of the Ottoman Empire

Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspec

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Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire

Studies the making and unmaking of the Ottoman Empire's Kurdish nobility

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Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire

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Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo

James E. Baldwin examines how the interplay of these two conceptions of Islamic law religious scholarship and royal justice undergirded legal prac

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End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1923

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of modern times. From its ruin rose new countries including Syria and Turkey. This vo

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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire - Gingeras Ryan

Anotace: `A tour de force of accessible scholarship` The Guardian`Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority` New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political...

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Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire

Set in the declining years of the Ottoman Empire, this book examines how issues of nationalism, national identity and processes of belonging played ou

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Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire

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Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe

This lucid and accessible book examines Ottoman relations with Europe in Early Modern times. The Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded a place

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Armenians and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire

Ari Sekeryan explores the political and social life of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire during the stormy post-war years, as the empire he

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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire - Ryan Gingeras

<p>'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political ...

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Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Explores how mass migration and a refugee crisis transformed Armenian culture in the 17th-century Ottoman Empire

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Regulating Non-Muslim Communities in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire

This volume investigates how the peace and trade agreements, better known as capitulations, regulated Catholics in the Ottoman Empire.

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Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire

This book examines how buildings and construction sites reflect shifting attitudes towards architectural practice, style, and representation in the fi

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History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

Putting the Women Back into Roman History

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Partners of the Empire

Partners of Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Negotiating Empire in the Middle East

Examining the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Arab nomads in the Modern era, this book explores how the Ottomans integrated the Bedoui

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Women in Mongol Iran

This book shows the development of women's status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Iran i

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Women in Mongol Iran

This book offers the first in-depth study of the history of these women in the Mongol empire by looking at the role they played in the political, econ

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Women Before the Court

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire.

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Women Before the Court

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire.

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Waiting on Empire

The story of the South Asian women who travelled as ayahs (servants and nannies) in the British empire, but often found themselves abandoned in Britai

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Empire of Love

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulate in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperia...

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Struggle Against Russia in the Romanian Principalities

With the expansion of Russia in the Balkans, amidst the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the struggle against Russia in the Romanian principalities took

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Cross a Crescent in the Balkans

Explains how the Ottoman Turks conquered South East Europe. Sets the final fall of the Roman Byzantine Empire in its full context.

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Avalon Hill desková hra Axis a Allies WWI 1914 english

Experience Axis a Allies in the setting of World War I with the familiar, time-tested A a A rules adapted to let players control the armies of 1914.The Central Powers of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire are aligned against the great alliance of France, the British Empire, the Russian Empire, Italy and the United States on a new game board ext...

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Foundation and Empire, 1. vydání - Isaac Asimov

<p>The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its founding father,...

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Empires of the Sea

Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and

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Subjects of the Sultan

Explores the unknown world of ordinary people in the Ottoman Empire, filled with vivid detail of everyday life in a now-vanished world. A new look at

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A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps - Jonn Elledge

<p>People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot abo...

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A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps - Elledge Jonn

Anotace: People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot ab...

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Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768

Provides a nuanced picture of the Greek experience in the Ottoman empire. The author discusses the changing views of the Ottoman Empire more generally

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Armies of the Balkan Wars 1912–13

In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Forming an army of some 645,000 troops fro

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Rise and Fall : A History of the World in Ten Empires - Strathern Paul

Anotace: Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning ...

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The Hand, the Eye and the Heart - Zoe Marriott

Anotace: Zhilan was assigned female at birth. Despite a gift for illusions, they know they are destined to live out their life within the confines of the women's quarter. But when civil war sets the empire aflame, Zhilan is determined save their disabled father from the battlefield. By taking his place. Surviving brutal army training as a boy - Zhi - is only the fir...

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Formation of the Albanian National Consciousness

As the Ottoman Empire began to fall apart in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish war of 1878, Albanian leaders met at Prizren in 1878 to devise a strat

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The Hand, the Eye and the Heart - Zoe Marriott

<p>“A rising star of fantasy fiction.” The Times</p> <p>"Richly imagined yet sharply topical. You’ll fall in love with Zhi.” L. A. Weatherly, author of the Angel trilogy</p> <p>"Zoë Marriott has created something truly special.” Lauren James, author of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe</p> <p>Zhilan was assigned female ...

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Hand, the Eye and the Heart

"A rising star of fantasy fiction." The Times"Richly imagined yet sharply topical. You'll fall in love with Zhi." L. A.Weatherly, author of the Angel trilogy"Zoe Marriott has created something truly special." Lauren James, author of The Loneliest Girl in the UniverseZhilan was assigned female at birth. Despite a gift for illusions, they know ...

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Compass of the Destiny: Istanbul

Face Your Past, Shape Your Future! Play as a Venetian in the 17th century Ottoman Empire and face the darkness of his past. Try to solve the problems in your past and deal with the impossibilities of your future! Customize your hero, choose wisely in challenges, and solve mysteries of The Compass in your quests for adventure and truth! A Mysterious Look into a True Story...

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The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France - Puhak Shelley

Anotace: A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. `Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life` Helen Castor `Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history` Dan Jones `Fredegund and Brunhild have finally found a worthy champion` Literary ReviewBrunhild was a Visigothi...

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The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France - Shelley Puhak

<p>A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor 'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history' Dan Jones 'Fredegund and Brunhild have finally found a worthy champion' Literary Review Brunhild was a Vis...

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Compass of the Destiny: Istanbul (PC)

Face Your Past, Shape Your Future!Play as a Venetian in the 17th century Ottoman Empire and face the darkness of his past. Try to solve the problems in your past and deal with the impossibilities of your future!Customize your hero, choose wisely in challenges, and solve mysteries of The Compass in your quests for adventure and truth!A Mysterious Look into a True Story!Man...

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Making History: The First World War

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new. This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully reali...

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Making History: The First World War (PC)

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It&rsquo;s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new.This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully re...

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British Responses to Genocide

This book examines British responses to genocide and atrocity in the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I.

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War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance - Zygar Mikhail

Anotace: `History is made up of myths,` writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. `Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.` Drawing from his perilous career investigating the frontiers of the Russian empire, Zygar reveals how 350 years of propaganda, bad historical scholarship, folk tales and fantasy spurred his nat...

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War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance - Mikhail Zygar

<p>'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.' Drawing from his perilous career investigating the frontiers of the Russian empire, Zygar reveals how 350 years of propaganda, bad historical scholarship, folk tales and fantasy spurred his nati...

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Last Treaty

Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe's War with the Ottoman Empire through

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My Name Is Red

The Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and the Ottoman Empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in

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Traitor's Niche

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAt the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into

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Birds Without Wings

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a

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Sea of Troubles

Authoritative and compelling account of European imperialism in North Africa and the Levant, and of the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

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Strange Library

On his way home from school, the young narrator finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library

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Locusts of Power

Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by trac

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Turkish Embassy Letters (1763)

In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accom

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Turkish Embassy Letters

Letters written from 1716-1718 from the Ottoman Empire by Mary Wortley Montagu, one of the first modern travel writers. A revelation in their day.

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On Her Own Ground:The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker - A'Lelia Perry Bundles

<p>The book behind the new Netflix series, starring Octavia Spencer 'One of the most fabulous African-American figures of the twentieth century' Ishmael Reed Madam Walker was the first free-born child in her family, growing up in abject poverty in post-Civil War America. From humble beginnings, she overcame societal prejudice, family betrayals and epic business ri...

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