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THE HERITAGE OF CENTRAL ASIA (P/B)
Central Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part of the empires conquered by Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Timur, and their successors during antiquity and the Middle Ages. At the turn of the millennium, Central Asia became the Turkish center of rule. After the Turkish expansion, political rule belonged to the Turks, but the culture remained Iranian. Over the course of the centuries, ancient polytheistic religions gave way to Zoroastrianism, ...
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(P/B) ISLANDS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
The Ottoman Empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. It included islands such as Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, and many smaller ones in the Aegean, Adriatic, and Black Seas. These islands were its frontiers, and many of the battles against Christian enemies were fought here; they were also bridges to the outside world beyond the empire. They were often fortified by magnificent castles, and sometimes served as bases for corsairs. The chapters deal with significant events in naval history, collective punishments by ...
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(P/B) STARTING WITH FOOD
Food is a marker of identity, culture, and class, and it denotes power, routine, leisure, and celebration. Despite its importance to every aspect of historical research, this topic has not been sufficiently explored in Ottoman history. This volume places the study of food in the mainstream of Ottoman history by analyzing major issues - origins, identity, minorities, Ottomanization, the "golden age," foreign relations, the nature of modernity - all from the perspective of food. Contributors include Nicolas Trepanier, Iklil O. Selcuk, Rachel...
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(P/B) ISLAM IN EUROPE
Islam in Europe is a book full of striking images: the assassination of and the death threats against artists and intellectuals; violent demonstrations demanding Sharia [Koranic] law for Europe; acts of terrorism. Also detailed are European political initiatives and, in some cases, new laws that forbid the wearing of the burka in public spaces, the ban on minarets in Switzerland, and other efforts to keep Western culture "pure." But there is another reality, as Nilufer Gole describes it from her own life experience: Muslims who are politic...
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(P/B) THE LURE OF ANTIQUITY AND THE CULT OF THE MACHINE
The Kunstkammer was a programmatic display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. These nascent museums reflected the ambitions of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Kepler to unite the forces of nature with art and technology. Bredekamp advances a radical view that the baroque Kunstkammer is also the nucleus of modern cyberspace. (From the publisher)...
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THE OTTOMAN BALKANS 1750-1830 (P/B)
The decades after 1750 saw the Ottoman empire undergo tremendous stresses that culminated in the first stirrings of nationalism among Christian subjects and an irrevocable commitment to reform by the Muslim state. By 1830, Serbs and Greeks had fought successfully for autonomy or independence, and Sultan Mahmud II had prepared the way for the Tanzimat by abolishing the Janissary Corps and other discredited institutions. In spite of the importance of this era for both Ottoman and Balkan history, marking as it does the transition from the pre...
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(P/B) THE LAST GREAT MUSLIM EMPIRES
Several currents in recent Euro-American history-writing have inclined scholars to see Islamic history as a useful entry to world history. One of these has been the renaissance in writing about Islam itself, as historians have sought to free the study of Islam and Islamic civilization from the grip of the Orientalist school, which dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during Europe's imperial age. Whereas Orientalists tended to isolate Islam from history's "mainstream" or to treat it as Europe's long-term significant "Othe...
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(H/B) OTTOMAN EMPIRE: A SHORT HISTORY

(H/B) POLITICAL CARTOONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: CULTURAL REPRESENTA

(P/B) THE GOLDEN AGE OF ISLAM

(P/B) JIHAD IN CLASSICAL AND MODERN ISLAM

(H/B) THE OTTOMAN BALKANS 1750-1830

(P/B) AFRO-CUBAN MYTHS
A moving collection of myths and tales, this book was first published in 1938 under the title Oh, Mio Yemaya!. The stories lead readers into a marvelous and magical world: the extraordinary imaginations of Afro-Cubans. Destined to become a classic in its field, Lachatanere's book was the first to gather a sizeable sample of Cuban patakies (myths) characteristic of the Regla de Ocha (or Santeria), the most widespread Afro-Cuban religion practiced on the island. These fantastical tales represent Santeria's profound response to some fundament...
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VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (H/B)