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A Traveller's History of Turkey
by Richard Stoneman
- HISTORY
- 2009
- PAPER
- 247 PAGES
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A classicist and popular writer, Stoneman traces the history of Turkey from prehistoric Anatolia through the Hittite Age, Persian Empire, Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans and the Ataturk years to the present in this lively compact history. With a chronology, historical gazeteer, maps and list of rulers from the early dynasties to Abdullah Gul, 11th President of the Republic of Turkey.
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Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey
by Hugh Pope
- HISTORY
- 2011
- PAPER
- 432 PAGES
Written by a husband and wife team based in Istanbul, this engaging popular history focuses on the many paradoxes of Turkey since World War I. It's an opinionated, revealing portrait of the nation by two knowledgeable journalists, revised and updated for this new edition. (TKY33, $22.95)
by Jason Goodwin
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 2003
- PAPER
- 351 PAGES
Goodwin artfully combines his modern travels with scholarship, history and reflection, capturing the outrageous personalities, events and vagaries of the 600-year-old Ottoman empire. (TKY44, $17.00)
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