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Istanbul : Memories and the City (04 Edition) by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments Weaving history with observations of people, places, and art, Pamuk shows Istanbul's transformation from the seat of faded imperial glory to the capital of a modern nation at the dizzying crossroads of East and West.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Osmans Dream the Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300 1923 by Caroline Finkel Publisher Comments The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Crescent and Star [Revised Edition]: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer Publisher Comments “A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head.” —Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer In the first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer made the convincing claim that Turkey was... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lords of Horizons (98 Edition) by Jason Goodwin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-[342]) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire by M Sukru Hanioglu Publisher Comments At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 by Caroline Finkel Publisher Comments The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud) by Ayse Kadioglu Publisher Comments Today, nationalism and nationalist sentiments are becoming more and more pronounced, creating a global emergence of ethno-nationalist and religious fundamentalist identity conflicts. In the post-9/11 era of international terrorism, it is appropriate to... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Trade Paper
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History of the Ottoman Empire to Seventeen Thirty by M A Cook Publisher Comments From the historian's perspective, the Ottomans in their heyday could claim a more absolute monarchy than any of the truly European empires, a more successful record in quelling rebellion and the rise of national settlement, and the development and... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From the Sultan to Ataturk: Turkey (Makers of the Modern World) by Andrew Mango Publisher Comments Defeat in WWI saw the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and marked the beginning of a prolonged and bloody transition to an independent Turkey, built first on the battlefield and later with diplomacy. The acclaimed historian Andrew Mango (Atatü... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Ottomans by Andrew Wheatcroft Synopsis The Ottoman Empire has long been an enigma. This book aims to unravel the mystery by looking at the Ottomans and their world in terms relevant to an eastern Islamic society, with practices that seemed barbaric to the West. The book also comes to terms... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ottoman Centuries by Lord Kinross Publisher Comments The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI was sent... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [623]-633) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town by Christopher De Bellaigue Publisher Comments Examines the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood by tracing the author's travels to the Turkish region and how he formed a bond with its people.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer Publisher Comments If Turkey lived up to its potential, it could rule the world - but will it? A passionate report from the front lines For centuries few terrors were more vivid in the West than fear of the Turk, and many people still think of Turkey as repressive, wild... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unveiled by Selma Ekrem Publisher Comments This book covers Ekrem's family's sojourns outside of Istanbul, when her father was governor of Jerusalem during the 1908 Young Turk revolution. It also covers his governorship of the Greek Archipelago Islands, where the family was held captive during... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town by Christopher De Bellaigue Publisher Comments "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 half a million Armenians from Turkey in 1915... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808 by Stanford Jay Shaw Publisher Comments Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808 is the first book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It describes how the Ottoman Turks, a small band of nomadic soldiers, managed to expand their... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bollingen Series #96: Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time by Franz Babinger Publisher Comments From the famous siege of Constantinople in 1453 through the numerous other campaigns that securely established the Ottoman Empire, the events in the life of the emperor Mehmed II are the subject of this classic biography. One of the most important... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ottoman Empire 1700 1922 by Donald Quataert Publisher Comments The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 is the latest addition to the successful textbook series New Approaches to European History, and strikes a balance between social, economic, and political history. The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Istanbul Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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