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Part of the series Zur Kunde Südosteuropas Bd. II/27;Udruženje za društvenu istoriju Teorija 1;Udruženje za društvenu istoriju Teorija 1.;Zur Kunde Südosteuropas 2, 27.
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• Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects:

• Ethnology — Balkan Peninsula.
• Anthropology — Balkan Peninsula.
• Balkan Peninsula. fast (OCoLC)fst01241484
• Südosteuropa. swd

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index.
• Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1. The black death and the rise of the Ottomans 2. Natural disasters and the Ottoman state 3. Natural disasters and Ottoman communities 4. Individuals face disasters 5. Natural disasters at the end of empire Conclusion.
• This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims were far less significant in Ottoman society than commonly believed. Furthermore, the emphasis on Islamic principles and the presence of Islamic symbols in the public domain were measures the state took to enhance its reputation and political capital – occasional discrimination of non-Muslims was only a by-product of these measures. This study sheds new light on flight and behavioral patterns in response to impending disasters by combining historical evidence with studies in social psychology and sociology. Employing an approach that mixes environmental and social history with the psychology of disasters, this work asserts that the handling of such disasters was crucial to both the rise and the fall of the Ottoman Empire — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Disaster relief — Social aspects — Turkey.
• Plague — Turkey.
• Famines — Turkey.
• Earthquakes — Turkey.
• Turkey — History — Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-337) and index.
• Floodtide of Islam — Challenge from the west — Tulip time and after — Western approaches — The strange fate of Sultan Selim — Mahmud II, the enigma — Egyptian style — Sick man? — Dolmabahche — Yildiz — The Hamidian Empire — Armenia, Crete and the Thirty-Day War — Ancient peoples and young Turks — Seeking union and progress — Germany’s ally — Sovereignty and Sultanate.

Subjects:

• Turkey — History — Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
• Turkey. fast (OCoLC)fst01208963
• 1288 – 1918 fast
• Ottoman Empire
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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Part of the series The Ottoman Empire and its heritage volume 57;Ottoman Empire and its heritage v. 57.
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• Includes bibliographical references (259-288) and index.
• Trading between East and West: the Ottoman Empire of the early modem period / Suraiya N. Faroqhi — Shifting winds: piracy, diplomacy, and trade in the Ottoman Mediterranean, 1624-1626 37 / Joshua M. White — Ottoman seas and British privateers: defining maritime territoriality in the eighteenth-century Levant / Michael Talbot — French capitulations and consular jurisdiction in Egypt and Aleppo in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Viorel Panaite — Firasetle na ar edesin: recreating the gaze of the Ottoman slave owner at the confluence of textual genres / Nur Sobers-Khan — Turks reconsidered: Jakab Harsanyi Nagy’s changing image of the Ottoman — Gabor Karman — Of half-lives and double-lives: renegades in the Ottoman Empire and their pre-conversion ties, ca. 1580-1610 / Tobias P. Graf — Aspects of juridical integration of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire: observations in the eighteenth-century urban and rural Aegean / Christian Roth — Gunners for the sultan: French revolutionary efforts to modernize the Ottoman military / Pascal W. Firges — Humble efforts in search of reform : consuls, pashas, and quarantine in early-Tanzimat Salonica / Gülay Tulasoglu — Transforming a late-ottoman port-city: Salonica, 1876-1912 / Sotirios Dimitriadis — A civic initiative for the founding of a museum in the Ottoman province around 1850 / Maximilian Hartmuth — The transcultural dimension of the Ottoman constitution / Aylin Korunyan.

Subjects:

• Turkey — History.
• Turkey — Relations.
• Turkey — Foreign economic relations.

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Part of the series Cambridge concise histories;Cambridge concise histories.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) and index.
• Beginnings — Between east and west, 14th century to 1774 — From east to west, 1774-1866 — The national state, 1866-1919 — Peace and war, 1919-1947 — Romanian communism, 1948-1989 — After 1989.

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• Romania — History.

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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-287) and index.
• Prologue: The Red Apple — The Burning Sea — Dreaming of Istanbul — Sultan and Emperor — Cutting the Throat — The Dark Church — The Wall and the Gun — Numerous as the Stars — The Awful Resurrection Blast — A Wind from God — Spirals of Blood — Terrible Engines — Omens and Portents — Remember the Date — The Locked Gates — A Handful of Dust — The Present Terror of the World — Epilogue: Resting Places.
• A comprehensive account of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 examines the end of the Byzantine Empire and the medieval era, and the implications of the siege for the relationship between the West and Islam.

Subjects:

• Istanbul (Turkey) — History — Siege, 1453.
• East and West.
• Islam and world politics.

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• Revised edition –Cover.
• Originally published in hardcover: New York : Random House, 1998.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-390) and index.
• 1. The Most Dangerous Road in Europe (August 15-21, 1995) — Bk. I. Bosnia at War — 2. The Greatest Collective Failure … (1991-93) — 3. A Personal Prelude (1992) — 4. Bonn to Washington (1993-94) — 5. From Decline to Disaster (September 1994-August 1995) — Bk. II. The Shuttle (August 22-October 31, 1995) — 6. Pale’s Challenge (August 22-28) — 7. Bombing and Breakthrough (August 28-31) — 8. The Longest Weekend (September 1-4) — 9. Geneva (September 5-8) — 10. The Siege of Sarajevo Ends (September 9-14) — 11. The Western Offensive (September 14-20) — 12. Drama in New York (September 18-26) — 13. Cease-fire (September 27-October 5) — 14. Choosing Dayton, Getting Ready (October 5-25) — 15. Decisions with Consequences (October 25-31) — Bk. III. Dayton (November 1-21, 1995) — 16. Going in Circles (November 1-9) — 17. Peace in a Week (November 10-17) — 18. Showdown (November 18-21) — Bk. IV. Implementation — 19. Slow Start (November 21, 1995-February 21, 1996) — 20. Disaster and Progress (February 1996-April 1998) — 21. America, Europe, and Bosnia.

Subjects:

• Holbrooke, Richard C., 1941-2010.
• Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 — Diplomatic history.
• Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 — Peace.
• Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 — Bosnia and Hercegovina.
• Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 — Personal narratives, American.
• Bosnia and Hercegovina — History — 1992-

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Part of the series New approaches to European history;New approaches to European history.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Why study Ottoman history? — The Ottoman Empire from its origins until 1683 — The Ottoman Empire, 1683-1798 — The nineteenth century — The Ottomans and their wider world — Ottoman methods of rule — The Ottoman economy : population, transportation, trade, agriculture, and manufacturing — Ottoman society and popular culture — Inter-communal co-operation and conflict — Legacies of the Ottoman Empire.
• The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire it pays attention to gender issues and to hotly debated topics such as the treatment of minorities. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has updated his lively and authoritative text, revised the bibliographies, and included brief bibliographies of major works on the Byzantine Empire and the post-Ottoman Middle East. This accessible narrative is supported by maps, illustrations and genealogical and chronological tables, which will be of help to students and non-specialists alike. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Middle East –Book jacket.

Subjects:

• Turkey — History — 18th century.
• Turkey — History — 19th century.
• Turkey — History — 20th century.

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