Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartThis brilliant distillation traces Turkey’s long and complicated history from the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire – the most enduring, and perhaps the most important, Islamic empire in history
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Fortna, Benjamin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893031232
- Language: English
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The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire
$32.00 Add to cartA new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East
The Ottoman Empire’s collapse at- Author: Aksakal, Mustafa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691262497
- Language: English
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
$18.99 Add to cartThe award-winning story of a young Armenian man’s harrowing escape from the massacre of his people and of his granddaughter’s quest to retrace his steps “Part family heirloom, part history less
- Author: Mackeen, Dawn Anahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0544811941
- Language: English
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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
$19.00 Add to cart“Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds.” –Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Narra- Author: Bellaigue, Christopher de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872480
- Language: English
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A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
$22.65 Read moreWithout the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searche
- Series: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture
- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 9633863996
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
$39.95 Read moreA hundred years after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate on November 1, 1922, enough time has passed to reexamine the Ottomans and reassess their legacy. This illustrated volume, by critically acc
- Author: Darke, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252661
- Language: English
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Notes on a Foreign Country
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Award – Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction
New York Times Book Review Notable Book – Named a Best Book of the Year by New York M- Author: Hansen, Suzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537836
- Language: English
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The Armenian Genocide: A Captivating Guide to the Massacre of the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Armenian Genocide, then keep reading…
During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian people were deported and killed in the most appalling
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1647480426
- Language: English
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Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, The Fall of Constantinople, and the Life of Suleiman t
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then keep reading…
Three captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the R
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647482534
- Language: English
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To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
$35.00 Add to cartA journey along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul reveals the story of Turkey’s history and becomes a mirror of its present–as well as a shadow of its future.
Caught between two seas and two- Author: Christie-Miller, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367349
- Language: English
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They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide
$27.95 Add to cartA definitive history of the 20th century’s first major genocide on its 100th anniversary
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the- Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity #23
- Author: Suny, Ronald Grigor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175969
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$40.00 Read moreThis major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673808
- Language: English
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
$35.99 Add to cartIstanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.
From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names–Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanb- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0306921995
- Language: English
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Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
$21.00 Add to cartOne of Time’s 12 Books for the History Buffs on Your Holiday Gift List
The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present.- Author: Madden, Thomas F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143129694
- Language: English
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Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
$22.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Ottoman Empire
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 t- Author: Finkel, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0465023975
- Language: English
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A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
$27.00 Add to cartPublished with a new afterword from the author–the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created
The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nation- Author: Fromkin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 21, 2009
- ISBN10: 0805088091
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$24.99 Add to cartA “panoramic and thought-provoking” (The Guardian) history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a diverse empire that straddled East and West
The Ottoman Empire has long been d- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1541673794
- Language: English
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Atat?k: Father of the Republic of Turkey
$28.00 Add to cartMustafa Kemal Atat?k was one of the most significant political leaders of the twentieth century. He rose from obscure origins to become the founder of the new Republic of Turkey out of the ashes of th
- Author: Gawrych, George W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0755651812
- Language: English
