Empire (Narratives of Empire)

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Barkey, Karen. 2008. Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. I was out to lunch with a retired politician the other day. He still makes the trek to Topeka to petition those in power for pet projects or to help out some of his friends. He bemoaned the changing times and how irritating he found these young politicians. I had to bite my tongue, nod my head, and make sympathetic noises at the appropriate times, but I wanted to say have you read Washington, D.C.. He would have found that Senator James Burden Day from the 1950s had the same complaints as he does in 2012. Mignon, Laurent. 2005. Neither Shiraz nor Paris: Papers on Modern Turkish Literature. Istanbul: Isis Press.

Late eighteenth-century enlightened reform movement in the Habsburg Empire, named after emperor Joseph II, aimed at, among other things, strengthening state outreach Magyarisation: I would probably be glad to give this book 4 stars rather than three if I enjoyed reading about this era of history more. The author does his usually fine job about taking us behind the closed doors of history and making us all wonder how accurate he really is. He talks a lot about the high society of this era which was also a part of the politics of Washington at the turn of the century. People are rich and women are quietly at work mostly off stage. But of course a Gore Vidal book always includes startling women and his special way of presenting them. He also manages to include a bit of homosexuality which is certainly not part of history in that era that you will read about in your average history book. Just a touch of course. Yilmaz. 2006. Ottomanism vs. Kemalism: Collective Memory and Cultural Pluralism in 1990s Turkey. Middle Eastern Studies 42 (4): 587–602. Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Jess Smith, George Creel, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies, Elinor Glyn, Mabel Normand, William Desmond Taylor

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Polt-Heinzl, Evelyne. 2015. Ringstraßenzeit und Wiener Moderne: Porträt einer literarischen Epoche des Übergangs. Wien: Sonderzahl. This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in 1918. During this period, both empires struggled against a rising tide of nationalism tolegitimise their own diversity of ethnicities, languages and religions. Contributorsscrutinise the various narratives of identity that they developed, supported, encouraged or unwittingly created and left behind for posterity as they tried to keep up with the changing political realities of modernity.

Aspects of Legal Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire. In Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500–1850, ed. Lauren Benton and Richard R. Ross. New York: NYU Press. Torbakov, Igor. 2017. Neo-Ottomanism versus Neo-Eurasianism? Nationalism and Symbolic Geography in Postimperial Turkey and Russia. Mediterranean Quarterly: a Journal of Global Issues 28 (2): 125–145.

Luke, Christina. 2018. Heritage Interests: Americanism, Europeanism and Neo-Ottomanism. Journal of Social Archaeology 18 (2): 234–257.