Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire 9780226257860, 9780226257723, 022625772X, 022625786X

Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire 9780226257860

Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own

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The Emergence of Public Opinion: State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire 9781107190924, 1107190924

Charts the Ottoman Empire's unique path to creating a realm of social life in which public opinion could be formed.

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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity 9780748677696

Revises Western images of Ottoman prisons as sites of Oriental brutality Read an interview with Kent F. Schull about th

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The Clocks Are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time 9780228009634

The remarkable story of how timekeeping became a global affair – and how standard time almost didn’t happen. Until the

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Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire 9780520928565

Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums—characteristically Western institutions—emerged in the late-ninete

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Homer, Troy and the Turks: Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1870-1915 9789048532735

This book explores Ottoman-Turkish involvement and interest in the subject between 1870, when Heinrich Schliemann began

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Dissent and Heterodoxy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Reformers, Babis and Baha'is 9781463216955

This monograph of the religious life of the late Ottoman Empire covers several significant features of the Turkish relig

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Stop the Clocks!: Time And Narrative In Cinema 9780755693863, 9781848851757

The clock plays a significant part in our understanding of temporality, but while it simplifies, regulates and coordinat

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From Empire to Republic: Essays on the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Volume 1

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Emotions in the Ottoman Empire: Politics, Society, and Family in the Early Modern Era 1350180548, 9781350180543

Exploring the political, social and familial ties in early modern Ottoman society, this book is a timely contribution to

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