Fezzes In The River
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Fezzes In The River
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Author : Sarah D. Shields
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-16
Fezzes In The River written by Sarah D. Shields and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-16 with History categories.
Self-determination, imported into the Middle East on the heels of World War I, held out the promise of democratic governance to the former territories of the Ottoman Empire. The new states that European Great Powers carved out of the multilingual, multiethnic, and multireligious empire were expected to adhere to new forms of affiliation that emphasized previously unimportant differences. In 1936, the new Republic of Turkey lay claim to Antioch and the Sanjak (province) of Alexandretta, which the French had ruled since 1920 as part of its mandate over Syria. Turkey's ambassador made a passionate argument that Alexandretta was a homeland of the Turks, a place that was essentially Turkish. With France and Turkey unable to reach agreement, the League of Nations was called in to broker a compromise consistent with the spirit of the new democratic impulse, one of many disputes that it had to adjudicate as self-determination became a rallying cry for peoples who wanted to form new nations around their collective identities. Over the next four years, Turkey struggled for recognition of its claims to the territory, while Turkish authorities competed to win hearts and minds in Alexandretta province. In this nuanced narrative, Sarah D. Shields illuminates how the people of this region-about a quarter of a million Arabs, Armenians, Circassians, Kurds, and Turks-were forced to choose between Turkish and Arab identities. In the end, Shields shows, national identities played no role in the outcome of the dispute. What happened on the ground in this contested region was determined by Great Power diplomacy amidst the crisis of European democracy in the late 1930s, a story skillfully interwoven with the violent struggles that took place on the streets of the province. In the end, a new kind of identity politics was unleashed that redefined belonging, transformed nationalism, and set in motion the process of dysfunctional democracy that continues to plague the Middle East.
Contested Spaces In Contemporary Turkey
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Author : Fatma Müge Göçek
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-06-30
Contested Spaces In Contemporary Turkey written by Fatma Müge Göçek and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with Political Science categories.
The most significant political development of the post-Cold War era was, arguably, the diffusion of neoliberalism across the globe. Yet behind the illusion of abundance and development, the 'rule of the market' can be violent and destructive, exploiting the environment, dismissing cultural or historical conservation and ignoring individual rights. This book now examines the emergence and consequences of neoliberalism in Turkey. Of particular importance to the study are the contested spaces - those sites of struggle and protest - where the impact of this economic system is challenged or negotiated. The contributors look beyond the neoliberal cities of the West - Istanbul and Ankara - to take into account the rest of the country and the groups that are most negatively affected: such as the Kurds, women and migrants. Chapters consider the complexity of neoliberalism in Turkey, where the power of the market, the agenda of the state, and significantly, the country's past, are shown to have shaped current economic practices and policies. Contested Spaces in Contemporary Turkey sheds new light on the societal processes that are re-shaping modern Turkey, a subject which is of increasing importance considering Erdogan's new model for an Islam-based state and in the aftermath of the July 2016 military coup attempt. It is at the cutting edge of research on urban history and social space and will be a significant resource for scholars of Turkish Studies and Kurdish Studies.
Genetic Crossroads
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Author : Elise K. Burton
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Genetic Crossroads written by Elise K. Burton and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with History categories.
The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's ancient history—as a cradle of civilizations and crossroads of humankind—was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens. Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise K. Burton follows the field expeditions and hospital surveys that scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities. These studies, geneticists claim, not only detect the living descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper past of human evolution. Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing projects. It illuminates how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial claims and national origin myths. Burton shows why such nationalist appropriations of genetics are not local or temporary aberrations, but rather the enduring foundations of international scientific interest in Middle Eastern populations to this day.
Morocco Journeys In The Kingdom Of Fez And To The Court Of Mulai Hassan
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Author : Maximilien Antoine Cyprien Henri Poisson de La Martinière
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Morocco Journeys In The Kingdom Of Fez And To The Court Of Mulai Hassan written by Maximilien Antoine Cyprien Henri Poisson de La Martinière and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Morocco categories.
"The shallow scratches made in the still almost virgin soil of Morocco by historians and travelers have increased the thirst for any really useful and scientific information regarding that country; for since the time of Leo Africanus a long blank occurs, filled up, indeed, by such writers as Windhus and Leared in the last century, and, in our own time, by the more practical researches of Rohlfs, Tissot and Sir Joseph Hooker; but while these works have all their separate interests, the volume now to hand will occupy in its turn a special page in the history of the northern division of Morocco. It is with reluctance I have acceded to M. de la Martiniere's request to write a few lines of Preface to his book, but my former connections with the country, and the fact of my being able, as far as my own knowledge goes, to testify to the accuracy of his statements, have induced me to make the attempt"--Preface.
The Compleat Geographer
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1723
The Compleat Geographer written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1723 with categories.
The Red Fez
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Author : Fritz Kramer
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1993
The Red Fez written by Fritz Kramer and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art categories.
This text explores the ways in which colonial Europeans have been represented in African ritual art and drama.
The Travels Of Ibn Batuta
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1829
The Travels Of Ibn Batuta written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829 with categories.
Meander
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Author : Jeremy Seal
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-07-05
Meander written by Jeremy Seal and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-05 with Travel categories.
The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation Jeremy Seal is duty-bound to accept while travelling the length of it in a one-man canoe. At every twist and turn of his journey, from the Meander's source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, Seal illuminates his account with a wealth of cultural, historical and personal asides. It is a journey that takes him from Turkey's steppe interior - the stamping ground of such illustrious adventurers as Xerxes, Alexander the Great and the Crusader Kings - to the great port city of Miletus, home of the earliest Western philosophers. Along the way Seal unpicks the history of this remarkable region, but he also encounters a rich assortment of contemporary characters who reveal a rural Turkey on the cusp of change. Above all, this is the story of a river that first brought the cultures of East and West into contact - and conflict - with one another, its banks littered with the spoil of empires, the marks of war, and the detritus of recent industrialisation. At once epic, intimate and insightful, Meander is a brilliant evocation of a land between two worlds.
A Journey To Mequinez The Resindence Of The Present Emperor Of Fez And Morocco
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Author : John Windus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1725
A Journey To Mequinez The Resindence Of The Present Emperor Of Fez And Morocco written by John Windus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1725 with categories.
A Farewell To Arms
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Author : Ernest Hemingway
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1997-04-01
A Farewell To Arms written by Ernest Hemingway and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-01 with Fiction categories.
The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto -- of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized -- is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.