This collection of essays by David Shankland explores Turkish political and religious issues from a social anthropological perspective.

This volume in honour of Colin Imber (University of Manchester) contains essays by many leading Ottoman historians.

Part of the deposed Ottoman imperial family, Mahmud Sami tells the story of the how the heirs to the Ottoman throne lost Iraq’s oil assets and how they have tried to regain them during the 20th century.

In The Limits of Eurocentricity, Keith Wilson argues that the British Empire did not reorient itself towards Europe at the beginningo f the twentieth century as has long been assumed.

This collection of essays published in memory of Ali Ihsan Bagis are concerned with Ottoman and Turkish contacts with the West.

Based on extensive archival research, this book presents the state of Jewish schooling in Ottoman Edirne during the period of activity by the Alliance Israelite Universelle.

Ronald Jennings makes use of a 1572 survey of Cyprus by the Ottoman authorities to describe local village life and living shortly after its conquest.

Demirci’s work on provincial taxation in the seventeenth century is a contribution to scholarship on both centre-periphery relations and the question of Ottoman decline.

A study on the social and economic history of the Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire during the 16th to 18th centuries with a particular interest in their day-to-day relations with the Muslims.

Alexander de Groot looks beyond the Tulip craze of the seventeenth century to explore the story of Dutch-Ottoman contact, from the Battle of Lepanto in the late sixteenth century to the Turkish nationalist struggle of the 1920s.