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• Sultan Abdülhamid II's Yıldız Palace
• Yıldız Kiosk and the queen mothers
• Yıldız and its gardeners
• The architecture of Yıldız Mountain
• The last photograph album of the Hamidian Palace
• Coda : palace mosque, palace theater

"Traces the history of the Yıldız Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire"-- Provided by publisher

This book analyzes how AKPs embedded intellectuals operate as media spin doctors, exploring their transformation from passionately engaged intellectuals into apparatchiks. This project adapts a post-Soviet geography approach to the media, intelligentsia, and political discourse as derivative of authoritarian regimes to the Turkish context. It offers a fresh look at the Turkish political and intellectual scene and a comparative study of the populist-authoritarian politics of Turkey. Situated in the literature on the post-Soviet authoritarian regimes and their ways of governing, as well as their manipulation of public opinion, the book analyzes AKP-aligned intellectuals as apparatchiks. Gurpnar explores the different constellations of pro-AKP intellectuals vindicating the AKP regime from various angles, including: liberal/progressive intellectuals who initially supported the party for its liberal vistas but continued their support by twisting their progressive rhetoric; Islamist intellectuals blending their Islamism with populism; and national security intellectuals who joined after the AKP came to propagate a national security agenda. The book also provides an overview of the mechanisms of political technology, including the media landscape and its running by the AKP, intellectuals themselves as operators of political technology, and the problem of "cultural power." The book will be of interest to those studying comparative authoritarian politics, populism, political communication, and scholars of Middle East and Eastern Europe. Dogan Gurpnar is an associate professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He has published three books in English: Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 18601950 (2013), Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy (2014), and Conspiracy Nation: Conspiracy Theories in Turkey (2019)

• Ethnic and cultural boundaries in early Ottoman entertainment: staging otherness
• Publishing and censoring: political cartoon press from empire to republic
• Young Turkish diaspora in Europe: learning to illustrate the orient
• "No wooden tongs, no Arab pashas": imperial capital and its Arab residences in the revolutionary press
• From Ottoman center to Arab periphery: the Arabs of Yemen, Tripolitania, and Egypt
• From national to non-national other: the Arab in early Republican cartoons
• Racialization of ethnicity and Arab as Turk's mirror image

"Büke Okyar examines the development of Turkish national identity from the 1908 constitutional revolution to the inclusion of Alexandretta in 1939, using the lens of contemporary political cartoons. The book challenges the notion that ethno-religious stereotypes of the Arab are limited to the western dichotomy of the Other and seeks to highlight the importance of previously neglected colloquial Turkish sources"-- Provided by publisher

To date, very few northern Albanian archaeological sites have been surveyed and excavated. Situated beyond the reach, and allure, of the Classical Greek colonies of south-central Albania, the region has drawn less scholarly attention. But in various ways, northern Albania is just as important to the ongoing archaeological debates regarding the origins of inequality and the rise of social complexity. Some of the earliest and largest hill forts and tumuli (burial mounds) in Albania, dating to the Bronze and Iron Age, are located in Shkodër. Shkodër (Rozafa) Castle became the capital of the so-called Illyrian Kingdom, which was conquered by Rome in the early 3rd century BC. This research report, focused on the province of Shkodër, is based on five years of field and laboratory work and is the first synthetic archaeological treatment of this region. The results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (or PASH) are presented here in two volumes. Volume 1 includes geological context, a literature review, historical background, and reports on the regional survey and test excavations at three settlements and three tumuli. In Volume 2, the authors describe the artifacts recovered through survey and excavation, including chipped stone, small finds, and pottery from the prehistoric, Classical, Roman, medieval, and post-medieval periods. They also present results of faunal, petrographic, chemical, carpological, and strontium isotope analyses of the artifacts. Extensive supporting data is available on the University of Michigan's Deep Blue data repository: https://doi.org/10.7302/xnpy-0e60 These two volumes place northern Albania--and the Shkodër Province in particular--at the forefront of archaeological research in the Balkans.

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Maps
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Language
• Introduction
• 1. End of the Great War
• 2. The Emergence of the Turkish National Movement in Anatolia and the Armenian Community
• 3. The French Occupation in Cilicia and the Turkish-Armenian War in the Causcaus
• 4. The Transformation of the Armenian Political Position
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Bibliography.
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The Armistice of Mudros was signed on 30 October 1918 and on the morning of 13 November 1918, a mighty fleet of battleships from Britain, France, Italy and Greece sailed to Istanbul, and dropped anchor without encountering resistance. This day marked the beginning of the end of the Ottoman Empire, a dissolution that would bring great suffering and chaos, but also new opportunities for all Ottomans, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. Drawing upon a previously untouched collection of Armenian and Ottoman Turkish primary sources, Ari Sekeryan considers these understudied post-war years. Examining the Armenian community as they emerged from the aftermath of war and genocide, Sekeryan outlines their shifting political position and the strategies they used to survive this turbulent period. By focusing on the Ottoman Armistice (1918-1923), Sekeryan illuminates an oft-neglected period in history, and develops a new case study for understanding the political reactions of ethnic groups to the fall of empires and nation-states.
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• Beyond the tribal frontier
• Commercial capital in the Syrian interior
• Producing tribes and property
• Bureaucracy in crisis
• Taxation, property and citizenship

"In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman state transformation on local, imperial, and global scales. As the "tribe" became a category of Ottoman administration, Bedouin in the Syrian interior used this category both to gain political influence and to organize community resistance to maintain control over land. Narrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making, from their involvement in the pilgrimage administration in the eighteenth century and their performance of land registration and taxation as the Ottoman bureaucracy expanded in the nineteenth, to their eventual rejection of Ottoman attempts to reallocate the "empty land" they inhabited in the twentieth. She places the Syrian interior in a global context of imperial expansion into regions formerly deemed marginal, especially in relation to American and Russian empires. Ultimately, the book illuminates Ottoman state formation attempts within Bedouin communities and the unique trajectory of Bedouin in Syria, who maintained their control over land"-- Provided by publisher

• Beyond the tribal frontier
• Commercial capital in the Syrian interior
• Producing tribes and property
• Bureaucracy in crisis
• Taxation, property and citizenship

• Migration (up to c.1150)
• Empire (c.1170-1459)
• Borderland (1450-1800)
• Revolution (1788-1858)
• Independence (1860-1914)
• War and Interwar (1914-1944)
• Federation to Fragmentation (1945-1991)
• Ruin and Recovery (after 1991)

"This accessible and engaging single-volume history of Serbia covers the full span of history, from the sixth-century Slav migrations up to the present day. It traces key developments surrounding Serb states, institutions, and societies, while incorporating the individual experiences and perspectives of ordinary people"-- Provided by publisher

• Migration (up to c.1150)
• Empire (c.1170-1459)
• Borderland (1450-1800)
• Revolution (1788-1858)
• Independence (1860-1914)
• War and Interwar (1914-1944)
• Federation to Fragmentation (1945-1991)
• Ruin and Recovery (after 1991).

This accessible and engaging book covers the full span of Serbia's history, from the sixth-century Slav migrations up to the present day. It traces key developments surrounding the medieval and modern polities associated with Serbs, revealing a fascinating history of entanglements and communication between southeastern and wider Europe, sometimes with global implications. This is a history of Serb states, institutions, and societies, which also gives voice to individual experiences in an attempt to understand how the events described impacted the people who lived through them. Although no real continuity between the pre-modern and modern periods exists, Dejan Djoki{sharp}{87} draws out several common themes, including: migrations; the Serbs' relations with neighbouring empires and peoples; Serbia as a society formed in the imperial borderlands; and the polycentricity of Serbia. The volume also highlights the surprising vitality of Serb identity, and how it has survived in different incarnations over the centuries through reinvention.