Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
$32.00 Add to cartThe “fascinating . . . lively” story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times).
In Empress of the East, historian Les- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0465032516
- Language: English
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The Secret History
$17.00 Add to cartA trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire’s official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor’s reign. Yet… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Procopius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0140455280
- Language: English
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Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, The Fall of Constantinople, and the Life of Suleiman t
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then keep reading…
Three captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the R
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647482534
- Language: English
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Back to Istanbul: On Foot Across Europe to the Great Silk Road
$32.50 Read moreAfter trekking nearly 7,500 miles, from Istanbul, Turkey to Xi’an, China, French travel writer Bernard Ollivier thought he had put the Silk Road behind him–enough for a retiree to rest on his laurels… [more below]
- Author: Ollivier, Bernard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1510776826
- Language: English
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To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
$35.00 Add to cartA journey along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul reveals the story of Turkey’s history and becomes a mirror of its present–as well as a shadow of its future.
Caught between two seas and two- Author: Christie-Miller, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367349
- Language: English
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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
$25.99 Add to cartA work of dazzling beauty…the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing. —The New York Times Book Review
Since the Turks first shattere- Author: Goodwin, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312420668
- Language: English
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Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
$18.99 Add to cartBy the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have inte… [more below]
- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393198
- Language: English
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
$20.00 Add to cartFilled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to th… [more below]
- Author: Brownworth, Lars
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0307407969
- Language: English
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Beyond State, Power, and Violence
$29.95 Read moreAfter the dissolution of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in 2002, internal discussions ran high, and fear and uncertainty about the future of the Kurdish freedom movement threatened to unravel the
- Series: Kairos
- Author: ?calan, Abdullah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1629637157
- Language: English
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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy–and how the West crushed it
When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationa
- Author: Thompson, Elizabeth F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148603
- Language: English
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Turkish Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Turkish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
$14.79 Add to cartDo you know what the hardest thing for a Turkish learner is?
Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book
Teachers love giving out tough,
- Series: Easy Turkish Stories
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1951949234
- Language: English
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They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide
$25.95 Add to cartA definitive history of the 20th century’s first major genocide on its 100th anniversary
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the- Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity #23
- Author: Suny, Ronald Grigor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175969
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097421
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$35.00 Read moreThis major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673808
- Language: English
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
$29.95 Add to cartA captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possible
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism–gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herr- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0691143692
- Language: English
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartA masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of t- Author: Bogosian, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0316292109
- Language: English
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
$35.99 Add to cartIstanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.
From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names–Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanb- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0306921995
- Language: English
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The Alexiad
$22.00 Add to cartA revised edition of a medieval masterpiece–the first narrative history written by a woman
Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Komnene, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455272
- Language: English
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Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next 25 years, she would t
- Author: Yale, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1912716356
- Language: English
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Erdoğan: A Graphic Biography: The Rise of Turkey’s Modern Autocrat
$24.95 Read moreWinner, 2022 Atomium Comic Strip Prize
A comprehensive graphic biography of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the authoritarian president of Turkey.One of the world’s most divisive and controversial leaders,
- Author: Dündar, Can
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1551529211
- Language: English
