A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, re-examining European influence over the changing lives of their urban population
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The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century. Nowhere was more inviting to pirat
A detailed introduction provides a broad geopolitical context to the contributions and discusses at length the broad themes which unite the articles and which t
This book discusses the transformation of southeast Anatolia during the 19th century. The analysis, which revolves around cotton production in the Adana Plain,