The Viziers Second Daughter

Author : Robert F. Young
Publisher : New Amer Library
ISBN 13 : 9780886770044
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vizier's Second Daughter written by Robert F. Young and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set back in time to kidnap Sheherazade, narrator of the "Arabian Nights," the hero snatches a lovely lady from the sultan's harem only to discover that he has stolen the wrong woman, Sheherazade's little sister

Author : Johann George von Hahn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857738186
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of Albania written by Johann George von Hahn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a scholarly discipline. It was he who first studied the Balkan country and its people, and who brought them to the attention of the academic world. Despite this acclaim, his work has not been widely available in English until now. In this volume, Robert Elsie has translated Hahn's most important works relating to his travels and studies in Albania during the mid-nineteenth century. Hahn's interests were broad, but he was especially interested in the tribes of Albania and Kosovo and made several ethnographic studies of the cultures and traditions of the tribes he encountered on his travels - including the Kelmendi, Hoti and Kastrati tribes. This volume will be invaluable readers for scholars of Balkan history and anthropology.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caucasian Folk-tales written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adolph Dirr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caucasian Folk-tales, Selected & Translated from the Originals written by Adolph Dirr and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ros Ballaster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191514853
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fabulous Orients written by Ros Ballaster and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative moves. Stories migrate from one culture to another, over vast distances sometimes, but their path is often difficult to trace and obscured by time. Fabulous Orients looks at the traffic of narrative between Orient and Occident in the eighteenth century, and challenges the assumption that has dominated since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) that such traffic is always one-way. Eighteenth-century readers in the West came to draw their mental maps of oriental territories and distinctions between them from their experience of reading tales 'from' the Orient. In this proto-colonial period the English encounter with the East was largely mediated through the consumption of material goods such as silks, indigo, muslin, spices, or jewels, imported from the East, together with the more 'moral' traffic of narratives about the East, both imaginary and ethnographic. Through analyses of fictional representations (including travellers' accounts, letter narratives such as Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, and popular sequences of tales such as the Arabian Nights Entertainments) of four oriental territories (Persia, Turkey, China and India), Ros Ballaster demonstrates the ways in which the East came to be understood as a source of story, a territory of fable and narrative. Fabulous Orients is structured according to territory rather than genre. Each section opens by re-narrating an oriental story in which a feminine character serves to 'figure' western desire for the territory she represents: the courtesan queen of the Ottoman seraglio Roxolana; the riddling Chinese princess Turandocte; and the illusory sati of India, Canzade. The book goes on to explore the range of fabulous writings relating to each territory in order to illustrate how certain narrative tropes can come to dominate its representation: the conflict between the male look and female speech staged in the seraglio in the case of Turkey and Persia, the inauthenticity and/or dullness associated with China and its products such as porcelain, and the illusory dreams that are woven in the space of India and associated with its textile industries. This is the first book-length study of the oriental tale to appear for almost a century. Informed by recent historiographical and literary re-assessments of western constructions of the East, it develops an original argument about the use of narrative as a form of sympathetic and imaginative engagement with otherness, a disinvestment of the self rather than a confident expression of colonial or imperial ambition.

Author : M. L. Bierbrier
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Late New Kingdom in Egypt (c. 1300–664 BC) written by M. L. Bierbrier and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of Egypt’s Ramesside empire is best known for its foreign wars and monumental buildings but the chronological history of many of its rulers and pre-eminent priests and their genealogies was poorly understood. While it was not possible to fi x the chronology exactly, a combination of known dates or date ranges, such as for the accession of Ramesses II, and the determination of family trees that extended over a large period, enabled Bierbrier to present a much closer definition of the span of individual dynasties and their key figures than had been possible previously. That volume is reissued here in facsimile. An important source of information is the genealogical references on funerary statues and tomb paintings, though vocabulary used is limited and often ambiguous. There are also several types of statuary, set up by individuals for different purposes, most frequently by sons or descendants to cause the name of the deceased to live on, many of which may have been created before the death of the individual commemorated. Taking into account these, and other difficulties, Bierbrier’s painstaking research proved groundbreaking in elucidating the chronology, sequences of events and family connections of the period from the official families of the XIXth Dynasty through those of the XXVth.

Author : Sheldon Jaffery
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1557420025
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future and Fantastic Worlds written by Sheldon Jaffery and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future and Fantastic Worlds embodies an unusual approach to the field of bibliographic research, including over 700 annotations of every DAW book published through mid-1987, with indexes by author, artist, and title, providing a massive guide to modern SF writers and their works, with much background data. Interspersed throughout the book are numerous wry, irreverent, and amusing observations offered by the late and highly respected researcher in this extremely valuable genre tool.

Author : Marc David Baer
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541673778
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ottomans written by Marc David Baer and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War. The Ottomans vividly reveals the dynasty’s full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world.

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140622
Total Pages : 2098 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Science Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the science fiction genre of literature, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Author : John Sartain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art written by John Sartain and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: