A comprehensive analysis of the French policy in and around the Black Sea region during the turbulent years between 1747 and 1789, which led to the French Revolution.

This book comprises the diaries of Lady Layard, wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, between 1877 and 1880.

A collection of case studies examining the demography, life and work of the Greek minority in the Ottoman Empire. The research draws on a variety of Ottoman archival sources, from tax registers to newspapers.

This memoir is one of only a handful written by Turkish Jews. It chronicles a childhood full of hardships as well as Jewish life in Istanbul in the first decades of the twentieth century.

This collection of articles concentrates on the Karamanli people and the Karamanlidika Press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It presents and discusses formerly unknown material from the Ottoman archives.

This collection of articles offers a comprehensive study of the roots of Socialism in the Ottoman Empire. It emphasizes the heterogeneous character of leftist movements in Turkey as well as their multi-ethnic history.