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Chinese Travelers to the Early Turkish Republic
Book cover: Chinese portrait and historic Turkish street
Fidan, Giray

Subject: Middle Eastern History, Asian History, Documents and Primary Sources

PRINCETON SERIES OF MIDDLE EASTERN SOURCES IN TRANSLATION

Edited by Near Eastern Studies Department

By the end of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century, China was in turmoil, facing an existential crisis. Chinese politicians and …

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Harem Ghosts: What One Cemetery Can Tell Us About the Ottoman Empire
Book cover: Harem Ghosts with Ottoman domed building
Brookes, Douglas Scott, Ziyrek Ali

Subject: Middle East, Ottoman Empire

“Since 1840 countless visitors to Turkey’s metropolis have passed this beautiful building and its garden graveyard without, it seems to me, realizing the gems of architecture and culture that await discovery within its dignified walls. Now, over a century-and-a-half after …

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Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans: Underground Societies in the Iberian Atlantic World
Book cover: Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans
Schorsch, Jonathan

Subject: Caribbean, Jewish Studies, Afro-Latino, Religion

“A real tour de force” –Reviews in History

“Schorsch introduces a cast of characters in a series of one-act plays, short stories, and extended mediations that describe particular engagements with what it meant to live between identities.” –Journal of …

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Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s
Nationalist Heroines book cover: woman arrested
Jiménez de Wagenheim, Olga

Subject: Puerto Rican History, US History, Women's History, Caribbean History

From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance to the imposition of American colonial rule. A group of Nationalists led by Pedro Albizu Campos made it clear …

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Problems in African History: The Pre-Colonial Centuries (Expanded Edition)
Problems in African History book cover
Iyob, Ruth and Robert O. Collins, editors

Subject: African History, Pre-Colonial Africa

This updated and expanded new collection covers the major problems in the field, incorporating classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about the origins of African history and Africa’s contributions to non-Western world history.

The themes presented include: • …

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Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900
Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History book cover
de Wagenheim, Olga Jiménez

Subject: Caribbean, Latin America, Puerto Rico

Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been written by the island’s colonizers, only the victors were celebrated. With this in mind, the author has expressly composed this book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed, …

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Santiago Pérez Triana (1858–1916) Colombian Man of Letters and Crusader for Hemispheric Unity
Book cover: illustrated bearded man, Colombian flag
Rausch, Jane

Subject: Latin Amerivan History, American History, World History, Biography,

The son of radical Colombian president Santiago Pérez Manosalbas, Pérez Triana was forced into exile after a scandal involving his business ventures, fleeing over the Andes and down three rivers to the Atlantic and a new life in the …

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The Kurds: A Divided Nation in Search of a State (2019 Edition)
Book cover: Kurdish female fighters
Gunter Michael M.

Subject: Middle Eastern History, Middle East

Donald Trump betrayed the Kurds, America’s most reliable allies in the fight against ISIS, by announcing in a tweet that US troops would withdraw from Syria. Betrayal is nothing new in Kurdish history, especially by Western powers. The Kurds, a …

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The Kurds: A Modern History (2016 Edition)
The Kurds book cover: Kurdish men in mountains
Gunter, Michael

Subject: Middle Eastern History

“Professor Gunter’s easily accessible book offers readers an excellent state-of-the-art overview of Kurdish studies and reveals the continuities and violent ruptures that have shaped Kurdish history over the course of centuries.” — Hamit Borzarslan, École des hautes études en sciences …

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The Saudi Kingdom: Between the Jihadi Hammer and the Iranian Anvil
Saudi Kingdom book cover with palm and swords
al Shihabi, Ali, Haykel Bernard

Subject: Middle Eastern History

The Saudi Kingdom: Between the Jihadi Hammer and the Iranian Anvil presents a candid and insightful analysis of Saudi Arabia’s political instability in light of the mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country today. Directly addressing Saudi Arabia’s …

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