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Building upon and updating its twin themes, this revised edition of "Turkey: a Modern History" focuses on Turkey's continuing incorporation into the ... More

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A "New York Times" bestseller, this masterful history of the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and the genocide of 195 is told from the view of ... More

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Like Charles II, the sick man of Europe was 'an unconscionable time dying'. Time and time again from the seventeenth century observers predicted the ... More

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Bestselling author, Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. ... More

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Turkey is a country in a state of flux. In the last few years, far-reaching political and economic reforms have swept away much of the old order that ... More

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This book examines the collapse of the Ottoman Empire which changed the lives of Slavs, Turks, Greeks, Arabs, and Armenians. For six centuries the ... More

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Hugh and Nicole Pope provide a glimpse into a culture that has long been misunderstood, and to attempt to fill a gap in perception with regard to ... More

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Frederick Burnaby (1842-85) joined the Royal Horse Guards in 1859, but, when not assigned to active duty, he crafted his own adventures. He ballooned ... More

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Grace Ellison (d.1935) was a journalist and suffragette with a fascination for Turkish culture. This book, first published in 1915, is a collection ... More

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The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. During the decade leading up to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the ... More

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At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians--queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, "arabesk" originator Orhan Gencebay, and ... More

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This is the only volume dedicated to the Alevis available in English and based on sustained fieldwork in Turkey. The Alevis now have an increasingly ... More

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One hundred years after the deportations and mass murder of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and other peoples in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, ... More

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Turkey's modern history has been unstable and contradictory. National identity continues to be an issue as Turks are faced with joining the West and ... More

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This is a powerful combination of a touching family story, a compelling legal argument and a visionary olive branch solution to one of history's most ... More

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Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Turkey traces the history of the later Ottoman Empire from the death of Mehmed III in 1603 to the proclamation ... More

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A newsworthy analysis of Turkey's struggle to mediate between its neighboring countries and the US.

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The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly ... More

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The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the ... More

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In the first two decades after World War II, social scientists heralded Turkey as an exemplar of a "modernizing" nation in the Western mold. Images ... More

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Turkey Beyond Nationalism explores the historical impact, both gains and setbacks, of Turkish nationalism in the 20th century and examines the ... More

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As Fred A. Reed travels through Turkey, he finds its Islamists to be reappropriating culture and beliefs despite secular fundamentalism.

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In this unique book first published in 1916, Romanian Jew ALEXANDER AARONSOHN documents for the world the struggle that went on in Palestine during ... More

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