In Zion's Dilemmas, a former deputy national security adviser to the State of Israel details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies...
This collection of essays contains the work of one of the premier Ottoman economic and social historians, Donald Quataert, covering topics relating to...
This collection of works by Rossitsa Gradeva looks at aspects of the Balkans under Ottoman rule. In particular Gradeva addresses the Danube river...
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.
Stefka Parvena, an expert in the Ottoman Balkans, brings together her past work on economic development and denominational relations in pre-nineteenth...
An extensive discussion of the Latin east and the Ottoman Levantines from the fall of Istanbul (ancient Constantinople) in 1453 to the recent past.
Saint Macarius the Egyptian’s (c. 300–390) virtue and spiritual exploits gave rise to various tales and sayings. These were recounted, some hundred...
A collection of papers on the discovery of Istanbul and the Sephardic Jews by Spanish travellers in the 19th century.
The United States’ standing in the Middle East eroded as a result of its policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1947 to 1967, with Eisenhower’s...
This incisive study by historian Lester Brune examines the background and implications of the two conflicts. Considering the late twentieth-century...