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Mary Wortley Montagu, Intr. Anita Desai
Tra Le Donne Turche. Lettere 1716-1718
8v9, br. edd. , fima di app. altrimenti come nuovo.
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PAMUK Orhan
Le notti della Peste
8vo, rileg. ed. in sovrcaop. pp.720. 1901. La peste dilaga sull'isola di Mingher e l'uomo chiamato a fermarla viene ucciso in circostanze misteriose. Nel destino di quella piccola isola e dei suoi abitanti Orhan Pamuk ha ricreato un mondo, parlando al nostro presente con una forza e un'intensità che sono quelle della grande letteratura. Nell'aprile del 1901 un piroscafo si avvicina silenzioso all'isola di Mingher, «perla del Mediterraneo orientale». Dall'imbarcazione scendono due persone: il dottor Bonkowski – il maggior specialista di malattie infettive dell'Impero ottomano – e il suo assistente. Bonkowski è lì per conto del sultano: deve indagare su un nemico invisibile ma mortale, che rischia di mettere in ginocchio un Impero già da molti definito il «grande malato d'Europa» e innescare così una reazione a catena nei delicatissimi equilibri continentali. Sull'isola di Mingher, si dice, c'è la peste. Il morbo viene rapidamente confermato, ma imporre le corrette misure sanitarie rappresenta la vera sfida, soprattutto quando le esigenze della scienza e della medicina più nuova si scontrano con le credenze religiose. In quest'isola multiculturale dove musulmani e cristiani ortodossi cercano di convivere pacificamente, la malattia funge da acceleratore delle tensioni sociali e non solo: poco dopo aver parlato con il governatore e chiesto che venga imposta la quarantena, il corpo del dottor Bonkowski viene trovato senza vita in un vicolo. In un drammatico crescendo la peste dilaga, spingendo le autorità a rafforzare le misure di contenimento: queste però aumentano le frizioni tra le varie identità dell'isola (e dell'Impero), tra chi le asseconda e chi nega l'esistenza stessa della malattia, o l'efficacia della quarantena, gettando la comunità nelle tenebre di una notte non soltanto sanitaria. "Le notti della peste" è un'opera-mondo grandiosa, universale, attraversata da echi di Tolstoj, di Manzoni, del Conrad di Nostromo, di Camus. Romanzo storico e allegorico (tra le righe si legge la deriva di ogni nazionalismo verso l'autocrazia dell'uomo forte), brulicante di personaggi e di storie, di guerre, amori e immortali tensioni etiche. In cui il particolare – le esistenze dei singoli individui travolti dalla Storia – si apre all'universale – il rapporto tra paura e potere, tra vita e destini generali, tra fede e ragione, tra modernità e tradizione.
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PANETTA Rinaldo
I Saraceni in Italia
8vo, ril. ed. in sovracop. Con 44 illustrazioni fuori testo e 2 cartine. firma di app. altrimenti ottimo. (pp. 302) - (Collana : Storia e documenti - n. 13) Opera corredata da 44 illustrazioni f.t. in b.n. e 2 cartine; l'A., basandosi sulle cronache di quel'epoca remota, ci conduce in un mondo carico di avventure e di drammi, che si direbbe frutto di fantasia se non fosse popolato di personaggi storici
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Harris Alexandra
La Fine Di Bisanzio
8vo, rilegatura ed sovtacoperta, firma di app. altrimenti ottimo
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Lewis Bernard, Prefaz.di Francesco Gabrieli.
Europa barbara e infedele. I musulmani alla scoperta dell'Europa
8vo, Leg.ed. sopracop.fig.a col. cm.16x23, pp.XIII-332, 13 ill.bn.e 17 tavv.a col.ft.
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Harris Jonathan
La Fine Di Bisanzio
8vo, ril. ed. con sovracoperta 303 p., [4] carte di tav., 22 cm, tela, sovr. firma di app. altrimenti Ottimo
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Brockett, L. P.
The Cross and the Crescent; or, Russia, Turkey, and the Countries Adjacent, in 1876-7 A graphic description of the countries, peoples, races, and religions of the regions now involved in war, unfolding the causes Illustrated with spirited Engravings
8vo, original red cloth with elaborate gilt decoration 594p, engravings, fldg map at rear. Original orange cloth gilt and black stamped title and design on front and spine. ex library, but exceptionally crisp and bright. Full title: "A graphic description of the countries, peoples, races, and religions of the regions now involved in war, unfolding the causes which have led to the conflict, and the vital (commercial, political, and religious) interest which threaten to involve all the great nations of Europe in it, with a truthful narrative of the Bulgarian Massacres, and many thrilling incidents of the insurrection. To which is added biographical sketches (with portraits) of the leading rulers, statesmen and generals of Europe.Illustrated with spirited Engravings". russia, turkey, roumania, servia, moldavia, wallachia, monenegro, greece, bosnia and herzegovina, bulgaria, . Ex-Library
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Imber Colin
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power
small octavo paperback xiv + 405pp., maps, bibliog.,and Index, with a section of 5 b/w maps. Fine history of the Ottoman rise from 14th Century obscurity to a world power in 200 years. The Ottoman Empire, 1300~1650 surveys the history of the Ottoman Empire from its obscure origins in the fourteenth century, through its rise to world~power status in the sixteenth century, to the troubled times of the seventeenth century. Going beyond a simple narrative of Ottoman achievements and key events, Colin Imber uses original sources and research, as well as the rapidly expanding body of modern scholarship on the subject, to show how this complex state worked in practice. Imber focuses on the fascinating internal structure and politics of the Ottoman Empire, analysing the various institutions through which the Ottoman Sultan projected his power: the dynasty, and the means of recruitment to dynastic service; the palace, court and central government; provincial government; the law; the army and the fleet. Imber charts the growth and development of these Institutlons over three~and~a~half centuries, until a period of crisis in the 16005 curbed the Empire's expansion and caused significant structural changes. Fresh and dynamic, The Ottoman Empire, 1300~1650 presents an unprejudiced view of one of the most important but, at the same time, most misunderstood empires of the pre~modern age. It is essential reading for all those with an interest not only in the Ottomans but also in the late medieval and early modern history of Western Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East. S
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HIKMET Nazim
Gran Bella Cosa è Vivere, Miei Cari
8vo, rileg. ed in sovrascoperta, pp. 200. (Scrittori italiani e stranieri). Pubblicato nel 1962, un anno prima della sua morte in esilio a Mosca, Gran bella è cosa vivere, miei cari! è un romanzo la cui gestazione ha accompagnato gran parte della vita di Hikmet. Pur trattandosi di un'opera di fiction, le vicende che Hikmet racconta sono attinte dalla sua biografia: sua è la voce del narratore, un uomo morso da un cane rabbioso che attende la fine del periodo di incubazione isolato in una capanna dell'Anatolia lasciandosi andare alle intermittenze della memoria e del cuore; suo è il "materiale di vita" che si accumula nelle pagine, gli squarci sull'infanzia, i momenti di attivismo politico, le sofferenze dell'esilio; suo l'incancellabile ricordo di un'amatissima donna, Anushka, sfuggente e contesa.
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Wishnitzer Avner
As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark
8vo, hardcover p.388. In a world that is constantly awake, illuminated and exposed, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. This fascinating and vivid picture of nocturnal life in Middle Eastern cities shows that the night in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire created unique conditions for economic, criminal, political, devotional and leisurely pursuits that were hardly possible during the day. Offering the possibility of livelihood and brotherhood, pleasure and refuge; the darkness allowed confiding, hiding and conspiring - activities which had far-reaching consequences on Ottoman state and society in the early modern period. Instead of dismissing the night as merely a dark corridor between days, As Night Falls demonstrates how fundamental these nocturnal hours have been in shaping the major social, cultural and political processes in the early modern Middle East.
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Stoye John
L'assedio Di Vienna
8vo, tela edit. con titoli al dorso e sovrac. ill., minime tracce d'uso alla sovrac. - prima edizione it. - trad. di Giovanni Arganese; edizione italiana a cura di Egidio Ivetic - cartine a fine volume, illustrazioni in b.n. pp. 315, illustr. f. t. L'assedio di Vienna a opera dell'esercito ottomano nell'estate del 1683, concluso vittoriosamente per le truppe cristiane con la battaglia del 12 settembre, è uno dei grandi punti nodali della storia europea. Fu l'ultima grande minaccia portata alla Cristianità, un pericolo così serio che i paesi europei seppero mettere da parte la loro reciproca ostilità e coalizzarsi per respingere l'attacco dell'esercito di Kara Mustafa. Le conseguenze della disfatta furono importanti: gli ottomani perdettero metà dei loro territori europei e gli Asburgo dirottarono i loro interessi verso i Balcani. Quell'ultimo scontro fra Croce e Mezzaluna avviò in sostanza un assetto europeo destinato a durare fino al cataclisma della Grande Guerra. Questo volume è una circostanziata descrizione dell'assedio di Vienna, ricostruito nelle sue premesse e conseguenze generali ma soprattutto seguito sul campo, giorno per giorno, nel concreto svolgersi dello scontro.
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DAGTEKIN Sayhmus
Ma maison de guerre
Le castor astral, 2011, 107 pp., broché, rousseurs, état correct.
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DAGTEKIN Sayhmus
Juste un pont sans feu
Le castor astral, 2007, 93 pp., broché, bon état.
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VISSIERE Isabelle et Jean-Louis
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses des jésuites du Levant
Desjonquères, 2004, 216 pp., broché, très bon état.
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DAGTEKIN Sayhmus
A l'ouest des ombres
Le castor astral, 2016, 121 pp., broché,bon état.
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DUMONT Paul
Mustafa Kemal invente la Turquie moderne : 1919-1924
Complexe, La mémoire du siècle, 1983, 222 pp., poche, bon état.
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TAYYAR Djafer
Etude philosophique et analyse psychologique sur les origines de l'ultra-popularisme: Philosophie moderne de Kamâl Atatürk, 2. La civilisation turque actuelle - 3. L'émancipation de la femme turque
Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1935, 112 pp., broché, couverture et papier jauni, sinon bon état.
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[RUSTAING DE SAINT-JORY]
Oeuvres mêlées.
2 volumes in-12, plein veau brun de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin rouge, tranches rouges, (4) f., 286 p. et (2) f., 346 p., mouillure au 2e volume. Edition originale. Par l'auteur des "Femmes militaires". Recueil où "histoire et fantaisie se mêlent" (Dictionnaire Fayard). Poèmes, lettres, anecdotes orientales, turques ou arabes et la traduction du premier livre du "Remède contre l'amour d'Ovide". Le deuxième volume porte exclusivement sur des thèmes orientaux, fictions, essais ou pièce de théâtre: Lettre sur la ceinture d'une momie - Le style épistolaire des Orientaux - Étrange ruse d'un roi maure - La Bien-aimée du Prophète ou la Pieuse musulmane - Zinch célébré à Alep. Suivis de trois comédies: Arlequin camarade du diable - Arlequin en deuil de lui-même - Le Philosophe trompé par la nature. (France littéraire, VIII, 345). Un plat détaché, mors fendus, défauts aux coiffes.
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COLIGNY-SALIGNY (Jean de), VILLETTE (Philippe Le Valois, marquis de), MONMERQUE (Louis Jean Nicolas) éditeur
1- COLIGNY-SALIGNY (Jean de). Mémoires du comte de Coligny-Saligny. Publiés pour la Société de l'Histoire de France par M. Monmerqué. Paris, Jules Renouard, 1841. (3) f., lvj, 152 p. 2- VILLETTE (Philippe Le Valois, marquis de). Mémoires du marquis de Villette. Publiés pour la Société de l'Histoire de France par M. Monmerqué. Paris, Jules Renouard, 1844. (3) f., lxviij, 362 p.
2 ouvrages reliés en un volume in-8, demi-veau bleu de l'époque, dos lisse orné de compartiments à froid, roulettes, petit fleuron et titres dorés. 1- Première édition des Mémoires de Jean de Coligny-Saligny (1617-1686). Gloire de la maison de Coligny, il suivit la fortune du prince de Condé et prit part à sa révolte. Il devint, par la suite, son ennemi irréconciliable et fit la paix avec la cour. Envoyé comme lieutenant général en Hongrie au secours de l'empereur contre les Turcs, il contribua puissamment à la victoire de Saint-Gothard en 1664. 2- Première édition des Mémoires de Philippe le Valois, marquis de Villette (1632-1707). Précédés d'une "Notice historique sur le Marquis de Villette" par L.-J.-N. de Monmerqué, d'un "Mémoire sur la marine de France" par M. de Valincourt, d'un "Mémoire au Roy sur la marine de France" par le comte de Toulouse, et suivi, outre les pièces justificatives, de "Lettres du Marquis de Villette à MM. de Pontchartrain". Quelques rousseurs. Bon exemplaire.
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KONTENTE (Léon)
Smyrne et l'Occident. De l'Antiquité au XXIe siècle. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée.
In-8, broché, couverture illustrée, 917 p., carte, statisiques, index, "Smyrne (Izmir) est une ville située en Turquie, sur la mer Egée. Comme beaucoup de ports méditerranéens, Alexandrie, Livourne ou Marseille, elle a connu de multiples mutations, sociales, économiques, linguistiques et culturelles. Cité grecque avant d’être un port romain, elle est devenue une forteresse byzantine, puis une ville ottomane. Terminus de la caravane d’Iran au XVIIe siècle elle deviendra un port d’exportation de produits agricoles un siècle plus tard, pour devenir au XIXe siècle la ville la plus dynamique de l’Empire ottoman. C’est à Smyrne que verra le jour la presse ottomane ainsi que la première ligne de chemin de fer de l’Empire. Smyrne est par ailleurs un des plus intéressants exemples de la cohabitation pluri-ethnique des villes ottomanes. Cet ouvrage est avant tout une histoire de Smyrne par rapport à l’Occident. Cette ville qui entretiendra toujours des relations privilégiées avec l’Occident et deviendra la ville cosmopolite où cohabiteront Turcs, Grecs, Juifs, Arméniens et Levantins. Le but de ce livre est aussi d’offrir une trame chronologique ; c’est une histoire "continue" depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à la période contemporaine ayant pour objectif de faire apparaître sur la durée, les évolutions, les ruptures, les changements, les renaissances multiples, et surtout mettre en exergue le surprenant potentiel d’adaptation de cette ville aux multiples facettes" (Note de l'éditeur). Exemplaire neuf.
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BIZZARRI ou BIZZARI (Pietro), BELLEFOREST (François de) traducteur
Histoire de la Guerre qui c'est passée entre les Vénitiens et la Saincte Ligue, contre les Turcs, pour l'isle de Cypre, ès années 1570, 1571 et 1572, faicte en latin par Pierre Bizare, & mise en françoys par F. de Belle-Forest (...).
In-8 (168 x 110 mm), plein vélin souple de l'époque à rabats, (1) f. de titre, (46), 286 p., (1) f. bl. Rarissime première édition française, dans la traduction de François de Belleforest, "plus rare et plus recherchée que l'édition latine originale publiée à Bâle la même année" (Blackmer). Cet ouvrage demeure l’une des sources contemporaines fondamentales sur le conflit qui opposa, de 1570 à 1573, l'Empire ottoman à la République de Venise appuyée par la Sainte-Ligue, sur l’histoire de la conquête Chypre (1570-1571) par les Turcs et sur les relations entre l’Empire ottoman et Venise, l’auteur ayant été un protagoniste direct des événements et ayant eu accès à des documents inédits et de première main. Important représentant de l’historiographie humaniste, Pietro Bizzari (1530-1584) se convertit très tôt au protestantisme et quitta Venise. Entré en relation avec les principales personnalités de l’Europe des humanistes, il exerça d’importantes responsabilités universitaires, éditoriales, politiques et diplomatiques, à Wittenberg, en Angleterre sur la recommandation de Philipp Melanchthon, auprès d’Edouard VI, de James Stuart et de la reine Elizabeth Ier, puis à Bâle, à Anvers au sein du cercle de Plantin et auprès de l’électeur Auguste de Saxe au service duquel il entra. Cf. M. Firpo, 'Pietro Bizzarri esule italiano del cinquecento', Torino, Giappichelli, 1971. (Atabey, 110-111. Blackmer, 147. Brunet, II, col. 1956 qui signale que cette édition est "rare". Cobham-Jeffery, p.5. Göllner, I, 1612. M. Simonin, 'François de Belleforest', n°117). Sans la carte annoncée à verso du titre, qui ne se rencontre que dans un très petit nombre d’exemplaires. Titre renforcé dans la marge intérieure. Quelques petites auréoles et infimes défauts de papier. De la bibliothèque de Victor Duchâteau (1823-1905), avocat et bibliophile rémois avec ex-libris. Trois petites signatures ex-libris anciennes sur le titre dont une légèrement grattée. Très bon exemplaire, grand de marges, dans sa première reliure de vélin souple.
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LUCINGE (René de)
De la naissance, duree et cheute des estats, Ou sont traittees plusieurs notables questions, sur l'establissement des Empires, & Monarchies (…). Par Rene de Lusinge [i.e. Lucinge].
In-8 (174 x 110 mm), plein vélin souple ivoire de l'époque, (2) f de titre, (7), 198 feuillets et (2) feuillets blancs, vignette de titre, bandeaux, lettrines, gravés sur bois. Edition originale de cet ouvrage, qui exerça une influence décisive sur la philosophie politique de son temps, de Botero à Montaigne auquel il a fourni la matière à plusieurs additions aux "Essais". "René de Lucinge, ambassadeur du duc de Savoie à la cour d'Henri III (1585-1588), puis signataire du traité de Lyon en 1601, rédige, au plus fort de la guerre des trois Henri et un an avant la "Ragion di Stato" (1589) de Giovanni Botero, [cet] ouvrage politique majeur. Il élabore une théorie de la conservation des Etats en réponse aux événements qui ravagent le royaume de France et dont il est un témoin privilégié: les guerres de religion. Alors qu'il tente de dessiner les contours d'une " bonne raison d'Etat ", il perçoit dans le système politique ottoman des éléments nécessaires à la conservation et à l'accroissement de la puissance de l'Etat. S'il fait de cet Empire un modèle concurrentiel des Romains, il n'en forme pas moins le projet d'une union de l'Europe chrétienne contre le Turc. Cette croisade doit pacifier la chrétienté et unir les intérêts divergents. Lucinge, après Machiavel et avant Botero, reconnaît que seul l'intérêt dicte la conduite des princes" (G. Arpin-Gonnet, 'Un diplomate aux origines de la raison d'État: René de Lucinge', Thèse, Lyon 3, 2002). "L'immense Empire turc, au XVIe siècle, représentait pour l'Europe une menace quotidienne. Les corsaires ravageaient la Méditerranée, et les armées du Sultan visaient Venise et ses possessions. Lucinge, qui a participé à une expédition contre les Turcs en 1573, au lendemain de Lépante, savait de qui il parlait. Il décrit leur organisation, leur force, et propose des moyens, parfois machiavéliques, pour les défaire. Vision d'un témoin, réflexion d'un homme politique des plus fins, sur une situation qui n'est pas sans analogie avec celle de notre temps" (Michel Heath. Editions Droz 1984). (Adams L-1644. Brunet, Suppl. I, 906). Cet exemplaire possède 2 pages de titre; entre la première et la seconde un changement d'enseigne du libraire Marc Orry: "à l'enseigne Saint-Martin" devient "au Lion rampant". Le vélin de la reliure est légèrement rétracté. Très bon exemplaire, dans sa première reliure de vélin souple, bien complet des deux feuillets blancs in fine.
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Eminoglu, Munevver & Rifat, Samih
Ressam, Sultan ve Portresi: Gentile Bellini'ye gore Fatih Sultan Mehmet/The
Bilingual edition in Turkish and English. Catalog published on the occasion of an exhibition of Gentile Bellini's portrait of Mehmed the Conqueror, at the Yapi Kedi Cultural Center Kazim Taskent Art Gallery, held December 7, 1999 - January 7, 2000. An extensive art historical analysis of the 1480 portrait of the Ottoman Suktan. 68p.Illus sultan by the noted Italian artist.
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Ristic, Seraphiim & Barac-Decanac , Sava
The suffering of Old Serbia and Macedonia in the 19th century : testimonies of Dec?ani Monastery Abbot Fr. Seraphim Ristic? (1864) and Bishop Sava Barac?-Dec?anac (1882
"The present book is comprised of two different texts, 'The Lament of Old Serbia' by Abbot Seraphim Ristic? of Dec?ani from 1864, and 'The Current unfortunate state of Old Serbia and Macedonia' by Bishop Sava Barac? of Dec?ani from 1882. Along with these two texts is a short letter by Bishop Sava to the 1878 Berlin Congress."These two narratives are "profoundly valuable testimonies of the oppression under which the Serbs of Kososvo, Metohija and Macedonia lived in the last decades of Ottoman rule. The authors make use of concrete anecdotal examples of the almost daily atrocities , robberies and other acts of violence against the Orthodox Christian population" 118p.[2 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Akhtar, Rai Shakil [ed]
Turkey in New World Perspective: A Cultural - Historical Analysis
A collection of essays about Turkish history, culture, politics and its place in the modern world from something of an Islamic perspective. 475p. bibliography Book
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Diamandouros, Nikiforos P, Anton, John P, Petropoulos, John A & Topping, Peter [eds]
Hellenism and the First Greek War of Liberation (1821-1830): Continuity and Change
[Series - Institute for Balkan studies, 156 on behalf of the Modern Greek Studies Association of the United States and Canada.] A collection of 9 scholarly essays on various aspects of the Greek War of Independence based on the papers read at the Symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association held 7-9th May at Harvard University. Introduction by John Petropoulos, Bibliographic essay by Nikiforos Diamandouros. 237p. index. Book
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Brewer, David
The Greek War of Independence 1821-1833.
"For the Greeks, the fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire was a cruel business, and its consequences far-reaching. Today's Greece is much more the child of that struggle than it is of the Classical period we know so much better. Because of Ottoman oppression and its brutal end, hostility to Turkey still smoulders, as does suspicion that foreign powers manipulate Greece for their own ends. For much of the war the Greek cause looked hopeless. The rebels could call only on lightly armed merchant ships and a long tradition of brigandage, which seemed no match for a formidable empire. Foreign philhellenes joined the Greek cause but foreign governments cared less for the Greeks than for the stability of Europe, hard-won by Napoleon's defeat. Nevertheless the Greeks won victories at sea, largely due to their use of terrifying fireships, and on land under the leadership of the charismatic Kolokotroms. Civil war then broke out among the Greeks, and for a time Kolokotroms swapped his tent for a prison cell. But support for Greece was growing, as all Europe was moved by Turkish massacres, by the death of Byron, most famous philhellene of all, and by the bloody invasion of the Peloponnese by Ottoman troops brought in by sea from Egypt. The governments of Europe now demanded an end to the fighting, and an allied fleet under Admiral Codrington sailed to meet the Ottoman navy at Navarino Bay. Nervous fingers fired inevitable shots, sixty Turkish ships were sent to the sea bed, and Greek freedom was finally assured. This is a powerful, fearsome and inspiring story, and David Brewer's book covers it fully for the first time in over a century, dealing evenhandedly with the courage, cunning and barbarism of Greeks and Turks alike." 393p. illus maps.bibliography.index (name on ffep, else fine ) Book
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Cezar, Mustafa
Typical commercial buildings of the Ottomon classical period and the Ottoman construction System
Translation from Turkish into English by Ahmet Edip Uysal. A large format well illustrated handsome volume on Ottoman architecture, focusing on important commercial buildings such as Arastas, Bazaars and Bedestens.315p. illus (col and B &W) maps- including large fold-out NOTE : An oversized [29x21x3.4] VERY heavy volume [weighs 1.4 kg/3lbs 3oz.] Book
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Freely, John
Istanbul : The Imperial City
This is a biography of the city originally known as Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople and now called Istanbul. With a population of 10 million, it's the largest city in Turkey, adorned with splendid monuments of both Ottoman and Byzantium empires. This book gives an account of the city's history from the time of its founding up to the present day along with notes on the monuments that have survived from the successive epochs of its past. It's a biography rather than a political or architectural city with the emphasis on the life of the people and of the city.414p. plates illus, bliography.index 1" chip to DJ.else fine Book
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Wetherell, J.E [James Elgin]
The Land of Troy and Tarsus
"These chronicles of Asia Mino r, ranging over a period of more than thirty-three centuries, will be found to include a variety of topics such as no other land can supply -lLegend and history and literature" From ancient Troy to Kemal Pasha. 263p.+ 15 plates. Donor inscription on ffep Neat clean text block, but the back strip of the spine is missing., else very good. Book
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Bicheno, Hugh
Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571
: "For much of the last fourteen hundred years the relationship between Christianity and Islam has been extremely troubled. Competition, misunderstanding and fanaticism led to frequent conflicts between those marching under the banners of the two religions, often ferocious in the extreme and studded with atrocities. Yet between these episodes - even at times in the midst of them - Muslims and Christians traded and associated with each other without any inherent animosity." "This book describes an event widely believed to herald the ultimate supremacy of western culture. On the morning of 7 October 1571, at the mouth of a gulf in western Greece, the fleets of the Muslim Ottoman Empire and the Roman Catholic Holy League collided in the last great battle ever to be fought between oared fighting ships. The Battle of Lepanto was the outstanding military event in a sixteenth century marked by constant warfare, and the greatest single battle ever fought between crescent and cross. Many believe that it changed the balance of power in the Mediterranean forever, and turned back a Muslim tide that threatened to engulf Europe." "However, as Hugh Bicheno shows here, the symbolic importance of Lepanto far outweighed its military significance. This timely book is the first major study of the battle ever written in English, and the first for many years in any language. It is enormous in scope, tracing the lines of history that came together at that time and place to explain why an event that barely affected the geopolitical balance in the Mediterranean is regularly counted among the decisive battles of history. Not least, as an illustration of the complex human reality behind an age-old conflict, the story is acutely relevant to the history we are living at present" 350p.illus (some col.) maps,tables, chronology, appendices, endnotes, bibliography. index. Book
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Adelphotita Pontion Toronto - Panaghia Soumela
Taxidia Mnemis Kai Agapes [17 o Ethniko Synedrio PamPontiakes Omospondias H.P.A - Kanada ]
17 o Ethniko Synedrio PamPontiakes Omospondias H.P.A - Kanada Toronto 7-8-9- Octobriou 2005. Published on the occasion of the 17th National Conference of the PanPontian Societies of the USA and Canada in Toronto 7-8-9 October 2005 . Includes documents and pictures about the Pontian communities forcibly displaced from the Black Sea coast of Turkey in 1915-1922. 170p.+ 17 illus. maps.[NO copies found in Worldcat Book
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Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis In Collaboration with Seabury Ashmead-Bartlett
With the Turks in Thrace.
Detailed account of a British journalist's experiences with the Turkish army in 1912 during the Balkan War campaign in Thrace. Contains : I. Waiting for the War II. Scenes in Constantinople III. The Efforts of Diplomacy IV. The Military History of the Turks V. The Modern Turkish Army VI. The Authorities and the Correspondents VII. The Early Operations VIII. Departure of the Correspondents for the Front IX. My Journey to Chorlou X. My First Meeting with Abdullah XI. Lule Burgas -- The First Day XII. Lule Burgas -- The Second Day XIII. The Rout XIV. How We Sent the Story of the Battle XV. The Retreat from Chorlou to Chataldja XVI. The Migration of a People XVII. The Capture of Rodosto XVIII. The Chocolate Soldier XIX. The Cholera XX. The Attack on Chataldja XXI. The Turn of the Tide XXII. The War Against the Correspondents XXIII. The Future of the Turks. (his previous published reports included being "Special Correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph". Author of " Port Arthur, the Siege and Capitulation", "the Passing of the Shereefian Empire") 335p + plates.fold out map, index. Book plates from 2 libraries, spine damaged, hinges weak, fold out map has some tears along creases, [Original not POD] Ex-Library
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Dontas, Domna [Visvizi-Dontas]
Greece and the Great Powers 1863-1875
Series Title: Hetaireia Makedonikon Spudon. Hidryma meleton Chersonesu tou Haimu, 87. Greek political and diplomatic relations in the early years of the reign of King George , and covering issues such as the Cretan insurrection of 1866-69 Originally a PhD thesis submitted to the University of London ) 223p. bibliography. Book
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[Nicholas Murray Butler]
Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars.
This contemporary report investigated the impact of the conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913 when Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defeated it . In 1913 the Second Balkan War began when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its loss of Macedonia, attacked its former Balkan League allies. The Balkan Wars were marked by ethnic cleansing with all parties being responsible for grave atrocities against civilians which were documented in this report.[X],418p. Plate,tables mapd. Copy neat and complete with plates and fold-out maps. Library marks including book plate,cover slightly shelf worn, else every good. Ex-Library
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Kadare, Ismail
The Siege
In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banners, hastily constructed minarets and tens of thousands of men fill the plain below. From this moment on, the world is waiting to hear that the fortress has fallen. The Siege tells the enthralling story of the weeks and months that follow of the exhilaration and despair of the battlefield, the constantly shifting strategies of war, and those whose lives are held in balance, from the Pasha himself to the technicians, artillerymen, astrologer, blind poet and harem of women that accompany him. Book
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Durham, Edith
High Albania
Facsimile reprint of the original edition published by Edward Arnold in 1909, with an added introduction by John Hodgson. "The celebrated account of the late Victorian traveller who became a legend in her own lifetime through her extraordinary travels in the Balkans. Born in 1863, the daughter of a distinguished surgeon, Edith Durham began her career as an artist and illustrator. Following her doctor's orders after an illness and depression, she sailed to Montenegro and began a life-long love affair with the Balkans. In a letter she writes, "It occurred to me that the vexed question of Balkan politics might be solved by studying the manners and customs of each district, and so learning to whom each place should really belong." Thus she cheerfully started on her expeditions that, she was well aware, ignored the intrigues of the Great Powers who were actively encouraging the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire. This is a passionate and flamboyant account of her travels, particularly in the mountainous terrain of northern Albania, where she cut a strange figure in her waterproof skirt and Scotch plaid golf cape but won the trust of the people there." With an added introduction by John Hodgson. (xvi + 352p.) illus map. index Book
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Penzer, N
The harem : an account of the institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to modern times
Re-issue - first published Harrap 1935. 276p.+ XXX plates index, , Fold out plan of the Grand Seraglio Neat tight copy, paper is age-toned, name of previous owner, else near fine Chipped DH noe in protectve sleeve Book
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Mango,Andrew
Turkey
[New Nations and Peoples library] Surveys the development of modern Turkey in the 20th.C since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. 192p. plates illus map bibliography, index Book
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National Geographic
Vol.172 #.5 November 1987
Article by Severy " Suleyman the Magnificent" (pp. 552-601) Book
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Lewy, Guenter
The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud)
[Utah Series In Turkish And Islamic Studies ] In 1915, the Ottoman government, then run by the Young Turks, deported most of its Armenian citizens from their eastern Anatolian lands. According to reliable estimates, close to forty percent of the prewar population perished, many in brutal massacres. Armenians call it the first genocide of the twentieth century. Turks speak of an instance of intercommunal warfare and wartime relocation made necessary by the treasonous conduct of their Armenian minority. The voluminous literature on this tragic episode of World War I is characterized by acrimony and distortion in which both sides have simplified a complex historical reality and have resorted to partisan special pleading. The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey examines the rich historical evidence without political preconceptions. Relying on archival materials as well as eye-witness testimony, Guenter Lewy avoids the sterile "was-it-genocide-or-not" debate and presents a detailed account of what actually happened. The result is a book that will open a new chapter in this contentious controversy and may help achieve a long-overdue reconciliation of Armenians and Turks. 370p. bibligraphy.index Book
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Lottridge, Celia Barker
Home Is Beyond the Mountains
A novel, based on a true story of Assyrian refugees forced out of their homes by the Turkish Army in 1918. "Nine-year-old Samira and her brother are forced to flee when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, barely surviving the journey and ending up at a refugee camp run by the British Army; After being sent to an orphanage, the director decides to lead the 300 refugee children back to their home villages, an heroic journey of 300 miles through the mountains, on foot". Book
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Benzoni, Juliette
Marianne and the Lords of the East
"Seated beneath the red silk canopy in the stern of the royal barge as it skims across the smooth waters of the Bosphorus, Marianna, now the Princess Sant' Anna, sets forth on her most perilous adventure. Her former lover, Napoleon Bonaparte, has sent her to seek out the legendary Sultana, the Queen Mother of the Ottoman Empire, who is French born and the Empress Josephine's cousin, and enlist her help in bringing Turkish help in France's still-secret forthcoming invasion of Russia. In exotic Constantinople, Marianne is pulled deeper and deeper into political and emotional turmoils. For the mysterious masked Prince whom she had married but thought dead is very much alive. And her true love, the American Jason Beaufort, lies wounded and in peril of his life while his stalwart ship, The Sea Witch, is threatened with destruction." Book
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Chamberlin, Ann
The Reign of the Favored Women
"The great Turkish empire of the seventeenth century, the most powerful of its day, was ruled by women who had been brought to Constantinople as slaves for the Sultan's pleasure-but used their slavery to acquire power on a global scale. The harem slave Safiye, "the Fair One" as she is known, is the embodiment of beauty-and ambition. With her perfumed body and bewitching eyes, she rules the men who own her. She controls the Empire from within the veiled harem walls, her web of intrigue reaching far beyond Constantinople and into Europe. Her touch is felt in wars, acts of sabotage, and the machinations of both European and Asian politics. The aim of her ambition? To see that her son becomes ruler of the Ottoman Empire. She will allow nothing to stand in her way." 15p.glossary.Clean copy but corners bumped. Book
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Hajinian, Sevan
The Armenian Genocide Denied : A Response to Turkey's Thirteen propaganda Spins
"Anyone who has followed the Armenian national struggle to earn international recognition of the Genocide of Armenians is familiar with the Ankara propaganda machines boilerplate denials. Ms. Hajinians book, in addition to documenting the Genocide, lists thirteen of the most notorious distortions deployed by the Turkish side and then proceeds to demolish them, exposing them as patent falsehoods. Thus the litany of Turkish propaganda spins such as 'historians dispute the veracity of the Genocide of Armenians" 'its up to historians to decide what happened' 'the UN didnt acknowledge the Armenian Genocide,"the Armenian Genocide was not state planned," "the Turkish archives are open; Armenian archives are not, "Armenian deaths were a result of communal violence" and "Armenians collaborated with Turkeys enemies" are dissected and tossed into the rubbish heap through solid research and a deft touch. xii,294p. illus. maps. bibliography [3 copies found in Worldcat] Book
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Andersen, Hans Christian
A Poet's Bazaar : A Journey to Greece, Turkey & up the Danube
Hans Christian Andersen's descriptions of his travels, including his experiences in Greece and Ottoman Turkey c.1840. 07p.plates. Illustrated end papers Book
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Mansel, Philip
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
Mansel's sweeping narrative of the last five centuries of Constantinople reinterprets the history of the Ottoman Empire and provides an enthralling biography of "the city of the world's desire". "This is a work for the general reader which will also earn the admiration of all academic specialists in Ottoman history" 528p. bibliography index. Clean crisp tight copy Large format softcover weighs over 2 lbs. Book
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Wortley Montague,Mary (Lady) (Ed. Christopher Pick)
Embassy to Constantinople : The Travels of Lady Mary Wortley Montague
The delightful observations of Lady Mary Wortley-Montague on Ottoman Turkish life and manners in the 18th.Century, whilst her husband was Ambassdor to the Sublime Porte . The book is enhanced by a wonderful selection of contemporary illustrations.224p. plates (some col.) index Book
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Ulker, Mustafa Birol [ed]
Topkapi Palace Museum Guide
Spectacularly illustrated official guidebook to the Topkapi Palace and its contents. 196p. illus map. Book
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Yapi-Kredi Bank
Topkapi = Muthaf QasrTubkabi [Topkapi Palace Museum]
"This book has been prepared in the context of cultural activity of the Yapi-Kredi Bank for the occasion of the sixth annual meeting of the Devlopment Bank of Islam to be held in Istanbul." It begins with essays in English by various authors : The Harem by Cengiz Koseoglu /The Tiled Kiosk by Hulya Tuncay / The pavilions by Hulya Tezcan/ The Caftans by Fikret Altay /Turkish Embroidery by Nurhayat Berker / The Treasury by Cengiz Koseoglu [pages 1-90] followed by the Arabic text [pages 91-220] The captions to the photographs are in both languages. English translation by Adair Mill Arabic by Mehmet Temimi. The textile sections are particularly interesting .220p. Col.plates Date stamp on ffep, else a fine, tight copy. [6 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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