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Carl Peter von Heidenstam
A Swedish Officer's Account of Turkey and Persia, 1816-1817

First published in Swedish in 1825 and never before translated into English, Carl Peter von Heidenstam's Nägra Underrättelser... occupies a unique place among early nineteenth-century European writings on…

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Linda M. Mayhew
Russian Literary Journals, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy in St. Petersburg, 1877

In 1877, the atmosphere in Russia was highly contentious. Amid war with the Ottoman Empire, the nation was also grappling with intense intellectual and political conflicts. Various groups and individuals …

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Amr Kamal
Emporialism

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1869 to the present. Honorable Ment…

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Fatima Lahham
Improvising Otherwise

This volume redefines how we approach early music and cultural histories, intertwining feminist, decolonial, and creative perspectives. Fatima Lahham delves into the improvisational practices of early mod…

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Alexander Fomich Veltman,
The Wanderer

The first English-language translation of an eccentric, unclassifiable classicAn unnamed narrator embarks on a rambling journey across the diverse borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman Empires--all witho…

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Lea Ypi
Indignity

'A magical literary feat and one of the most touching books I've read this year' Stuart Jeffries, Spectator'Beguiling and moving... a clever hybrid, happily exploiting the many possibilities of telling a …

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Dean Phillip Bell
Judaism, History, and the Environment

Engaging creatively with Jewish texts and history, this book explores the interplay between history, Judaism, and the environment through the prism of natural disasters . Historical case studies include e…

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Philippe Pétriat
The Last Caravan

What can travelling camels tell us about the history of the interior of the Middle East? In this innovative book Philippe Pétriat demonstrates how caravans - groups of travellers, often on trade expeditio…

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Fatima Lahham
Improvising Otherwise

This volume redefines how we approach early music and cultural histories, intertwining feminist, decolonial, and creative perspectives. Fatima Lahham delves into the improvisational practices of early mod…

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Naomi Baker
Voices of Thunder

The stories of early modern Protestant women, including Rose Thurgood, Anna Trapnel, and Jane Lead, who defied the religious authority of their age.Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and beliefs of…

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Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States

"Often depicted as the nation's iconic legal immigrant, unauthorized European migrants are often overlooked by scholars, policymakers, and the media. This volume tells the stories of European migrant…

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Amr Kamal
Emporialism

This book examines what Amr Kamal calls the phenomenon of emporialism, or the convergence between the spaces and imaginaries of empires and emporia in the context of a modern Mediterranean divided among t…

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A Cultural History of Genocide in the Era of Total War

The period between the two World Wars was characterized by an acceleration of mass violence across the world. Developments in technology, communications, ideology, global political and economic integratio…

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Eugene Rogan
The Damascus Events

'A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres-much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East' - Simon Sebag Montefiore'A stunning portrait of the Ottoman Empire and of Da…

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Seeing Is Believing

Critical, contemporary approaches to Gérôme's Orientalist, fetishizing paintings, once revered in the 19th centuryPublished with Qatar Museums.In the 19th century, the art of French painter Jean-Léon Gérô…

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Edoardo Albert
The Man Who Stopped the Sultan

An extraordinary account of how one man defied the most powerful ruler of his age and in doing so changed the course of European history.Throughout the 16th century, wars raged across Europe as kings and …

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António Tenreiro, Mestre Afonso
Portuguese and Spanish Sources on Safavid Iran

Translated into English for the first time, this volume brings together four remarkable yet long-overlooked travelogues - three Portuguese and one Spanish - offering vivid firsthand accounts of 16th- and …

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Daniel Neep
A History of Modern Syria

A powerful, definitive account of modern Syria and its fate Few countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria. Carved out of the Ottoman empire at the end of the First World War, Syria was then…

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Nancy Micklewright
Fashion in Late Ottoman Istanbul

This dynamic exploration of two key modes of visual culture - fashion and photography - in 19th-century Istanbul contributes to an expanding body of research on fashion and the dressed body outside the Eu…

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Feras Alkabani
Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitudes towards sexuality. Notions of 'respectability', 'propriety' and 'sexual morality' …

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