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Documenting the Armenian Genocide Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam
This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first...
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The Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800 Travelers, Adventurers, and Collectors
This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice...
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Visualizing History’s Fragments A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research
This book combines a methodological guide with an extended case study to show how digital research methods can be used to explore how ethnicity,...
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Britain, the Middle East, and Oman
This chapter examines the development of the Anglo-Omani relationship from 1798, and the factors which led the British to establish a position of...
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Conclusions
The concluding chapter provides an overview of the war’s aftermath, and Oman’s socio-economic transformation under Qaboos’ reign. It also summarises...
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‘Hearts and Minds’
This chapter provides both a critical analysis of Britain’s mythologised conduct of counter-insurgency warfare, and also assesses the extent to which...
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Mediatized Witnessing, Spectacles of Pain, and Reenacting Suffering: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarian Cinema
Focusing on the conception, production, distribution (and disappearance) of Ravished Armenia (1919) and Alice in Hungerland (1921), two silent films...
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The Property Law and the Spoliation of Ottoman Armenians
The genocide perpetrated against the Ottoman Armenians obviously had several dimensions: in addition to the physical destruction of the population,...
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The Genocide of the Christians, Turkey 1894–1924
We set out in 2010 to look afresh at the massacre of Turkey’s Armenians in 1915. While most of the world’s historians accepted the narrative that the...
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Testing Relationships Between Categorical Variables
For the Ottoman military-administrative elite in imperial provinces, alliances were essential to garnering respect and support among Algerian...
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Getting Started
What could a book be and become with new technological advances? This question has intrigued writers for decades. Writing in 1999, then president of...
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Descriptive Statistics—Investigating Questions of Representativeness
This chapter employs descriptive statistics to explore how we might characterize a “representative” governor’s term for the two distinct periods in...
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Detecting Bias in Textual Sources
This chapter introduces a novel combination of topic modeling and sentiment analysis to summarize the study’s documents and explore questions about...
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Texts and Intellectual Interests
This chapter is the first of three analytical discussions related to the catalogue of manuscripts presented in Chap. 2...
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Christianity’s Claims: A Kaleidoscope of Theologies
The return of Jews to Palestine presented Christianity with a complicated challenge. It raised theological issues that had appeared settled and...
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Islam: Encountering a Contemporary Challenge
Islam’s encounter with the Jewish state has been the most intense and actively hostile. The Muslim Middle East has mounted armies to wage war,...
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Conclusion
This chapter reviews the book’s main aims and contributions to the field, including the cataloguing of early manuscripts related to the Mevlevis and...
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Scribes, Patrons and Readers
This chapter examines the people involved in the production and consumption of manuscripts—those of Mevlevi texts, as well as Mevlevi individuals who...
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Britain and the Dhofar War in Oman, 1963–1976 A Covert War in Arabia
This book explores Britain’s involvement in the Dhofar War of 1963-1976, focusing on the military aspects of this conflict in Southern Oman. It...
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Israel/Palestine in World Religions Whose Promised Land?
The struggle over Israel/Palestine is not just another contest by competing nationalisms or an instance of geopolitical competition. It is also about...