Nothing is Safe. A rebellious history text that examines some of the most legendary figures and events of European history and exposes them as being completely false. Seemingly unassailable targets like Albert Einstein, William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightengale, Christopher Columbus, Copernicus, Cowboys, Voltaire, Feminism, the French Revolution, and the Magna Carta ar...
A cut-throat race for the worlds most valuable resource.
The English want it, the French want it, the Germans want it and they are all coming across the world to get it. Sultan Abdülhamid II knows that whatever it is, he better get to it before they do. This text is a record of a 19th century cocktail of blood and oil and the catastrophic consequences that erupted from it. In a move ...
Get your hiking boots.
At one point, the Ottoman Empire stretched from Switzerland to Yemen and from Georgia to Algeria. Haluk Dursun crosses all of that ground with a pen and a camera, taking the reader along for the ride. A photograph on nearly every page and a glossy, full-color map in every book, Dursun makes you feel the miles you are covering as you travel around to the far cor...
Governments always have their reasons to bend history one way or another, or in more dramatic cases, to flat out erase details or entire chapters from it’s pages. Whether covering-up an embarrassing failure or an underhanded operation, all governments have a few skeletons in their closets and it is no secret that it is the modus operandi of the modern state to dictate their nati...
From Cairo to Jerusalem, from Mecca to Medina, from Skopje to Kosovo, from the Elbasan District to Tirana, from Thessaloniki to Loannina, from Kos to Rhodes, from Estergon to Buda, from Ruse to Silistre, to Moldavia, to the Prut Roads, to the Dnieper and Dniester Rivers, to the Akkerman Castle in the Ukraine, the Ottoman spirit lives on. This book explores the Ottoman empires lasting ...
From Cairo to Jerusalem, from Mecca to Medina, from Skopje to Kosovo, from the Elbasan District to Tirana, from Thessaloniki to Loannina, from Kos to Rhodes, from Estergon to Buda, from Ruse to Silistre, to Moldavia, to the Prut Roads, to the Dnieper and Dniester Rivers, to the Akkerman Castle in the Ukraine, the Ottoman spirit lives on. This book explores the Ottoman empires lasting ...
The further democratization of Turkey is a factor which affects the foreign policy of a broad range of countries, from Azerbaijan to the United States. To understand where Turkish democracy is going, one must first understand where it came from. Turkish democracy is young, and though it still has some growing to do, it has come a long way from its humble beginnings in 1923, and effect...
Turkey’s world-renown historian Kemal Karpat’s book “Identity and Ideology” brings his articles on Turkey’s ideological advent together. Looking for the traces of the formation of identities during the modernization period of Turkey in history, Karpat gives ther eader the opportunity to see the process from a multi-disciplinary perspective. According t...
In his own unique style, İlber Ortaylı gives answers to the questions many of us have when trying to understand Turkish history, and its relationship to recent social and political history. Journey to the Borders of History is a collection of interviews with Prof. Ortaylı, which were originally published in various prestigious magazines and newspapers in Turkey as part of the...
Dursun Gürlerk, one of the most well-known cultural historians in Turkey, provides us with fascinating insights into Turkish history. In this beautifully crafted study, Gurlek tells the reader about conversations at the Ottoman Palaces and old Istanbul houses, reveals how St. Hagia Sophia was saved from collapse, examines the foreign policies of Abdulhamit II, and discusses Ottom...