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Features essays on historical and maritime geography in the Ottoman period.

Alexander de Groot looks beyond the Tulip craze of the seventeenth century to explore the story of Dutch-Ottoman contact, from the Battle of Lepanto in the late sixteenth century to the Turkish nationalist struggle of the 1920s.

A study on the social and economic history of the Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire during the 16th to 18th centuries with a particular interest in their day-to-day relations with the Muslims.

Ronald Jennings makes use of a 1572 survey of Cyprus by the Ottoman authorities to describe local village life and living shortly after its conquest.

Demirci's work on provincial taxation in the seventeenth century is a contribution to scholarship on both centre-periphery relations and the question of Ottoman decline.

This collection of essays published in memory of Ali Ihsan Bagis are concerned with Ottoman and Turkish contacts with the West.

Based on extensive archival research, this book presents the state of Jewish schooling in Ottoman Edirne during the period of activity by the Alliance Israelite Universelle.

In The Limits of Eurocentricity, Keith Wilson argues that the British Empire did not reorient itself towards Europe at the beginningo f the twentieth century as has long been assumed.

This volume in honour of Colin Imber (University of Manchester) contains essays by many leading Ottoman historians.

Part of the deposed Ottoman imperial family, Mahmud Sami tells the story of the how the heirs to the Ottoman throne lost Iraq's oil assets and how they have tried to regain them during the 20th century.

This collection of essays by David Shankland explores Turkish political and religious issues from a social anthropological perspective.

Rifat Bali's collection of American consular reports concerning Mustafa Kemal Ataturk make an important new contribution to the study of the man and his personality.

Rifat Bali has collected in this volume several American consular reports concerning the state of early Turkish cinema, including a previously-unpublished report by the .American embassy in the 1930s.

This volume contains a collection of documents composed by American diplomatic representatives in Turkey concerning leftist and student movements during the Cold War.

Sevtap Demirci looks at the Bosnia-Herzegovina crisis and the Balkan Wars and how they affected British public opinion towards the Ottoman Empire just prior to WWI.

Meeker's research is based on field work he conducted in rural Turkey in the 1960s and then in Istanbul in the 1980s. The third part is devoted to Meeker's writings on an Islamic resurgence in Turkey. The fourth and final part contains articles on political authority and interpersonal relationships in Turkey, past and present.

I Kath'imas Anatoli is a collection of papers by Richard Clogg on the Greeks inhabiting Ottoman Anatolia.

Gradeva's book is a collection of articles on the Ottoman Balkans which look at the administrative structures and inter-communal relations of the region.

Ayhan Bicak's study of Turkic thought is constructed around understanding their pre-Islamic notions of the state.

This collection of articles by Virginia Aksan explores the contacts and conflicts between Ottomans and Europeans through the centuries.

This collection of papers describes the transition of the Ottoman Greek community into nation states (Greece and Cyprus). The author explores the relationship between the religious and the national in the Ottoman context.

This work studies British policy towards the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) as it developed at the end of the First World War in light of the Russian Revolution.

This work is an architectural and historical survey of surviving and demolished Latin Catholic Churches in late-Ottoman Istanbul.

This collection of articles by Rena Molho addresses Salonica's Jewish community during the nineteenth century and the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the city was home to a large Jewish population.

A collection of essays about the representation of the `other' across the Mediterranean region throughout history and during the present day.

A comprehensive study on Varlik Vergisi (the Capital Tax) which was implemented on the minorities of the Turkish Republic in 1942-43 and affected their lives as well as conceptions of their place in the society.

Amele Taburu is the French-language journal kept by Haim Akbukrek, a Jewish conscript in the Turkish nationalist army during the War of Independence in the 1920s.

Strategies and Struggles is the first full-length work on the diplomatic efforts of Britain and Turkey to secure their interests during the Lausanne Conference following the First Wold War.

This book studies the film The Midnight Express and analyses how it has negatively altered perceptions of Turkey until the present.

Bruce McGowan's novel A Man of the World tells the story of an Austrian who finds himself enslaved in Istanbul amongst his former enemies, the Turks, but becomes captivated by this new world.