Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the sixteenth century, the Ottomans, with extraordinary military dominance and unparalleled monopolies over trade routes, controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power, forcing Europeans out of the Mediterranean and to the New World.
Yet, despite its towering influence and centrality to the rise of our modern world, the Ottoman Empire's history has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and even suppressed in the West. Now Alan Mikhail presents a vitally needed recasting of Ottoman history, retelling the story of the Ottoman conquest of the world through the dramatic biography of Sultan Selim I (1470-1520).
Born to a concubine, and the fourth of his sultan father's ten sons, Selim was never meant to inherit the throne. With personal charisma and military prowess--as well as the guidance of his remarkably gifted mother, G lbahar--Selim claimed power over the empire in 1512 and, through ruthless ambition, nearly tripled the territory under Ottoman control, building a governing structure that lasted into the twentieth century. At the same time, Selim--known by his subjects as "God's Shadow on Earth"--fostered religious diversity, welcoming Jews among other minority populations into the empire; encouraged learning and philosophy; and penned his own verse.
Drawing on previously unexamined sources from multiple languages, and with original maps and stunning illustrations, Mikhail's game-changing account "challenges readers to recalibrate their sense of history" (Leslie Peirce), adroitly using Selim's life to upend prevailing shibboleths about Islamic history and jingoistic "rise of the West" theories that have held sway for decades. Whether recasting Christopher Columbus's voyages to the "Americas" as a bumbling attempt to slay Muslims or showing how the Ottomans allowed slaves to become the elite of society while Christian states at the very same time waged the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, God's Shadow radically reshapes our understanding of the importance of Selim's Ottoman Empire in the history of the modern world.
Описание: Although well known to experts in English literature, Guilpin's Skialetheia has been available only in inadequate texts until now. This edition of the 1598 work presents an old-spelling critical text and provides and introduction and commentary on the text. These seventy epigrams and seven formal verse satires display the peculiarly negative, malicious tone associated with English literature of the time.Originally published 1974.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Автор: Magdalena Barbaruk Название: The Long Shadow of Don Quixote ISBN: 3631666535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631666531 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 11192.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The author traces the resurgence of Don Quixote in the contemporary humanities. In the aftermath of World War II, the figure underwent the most radical re-interpretation since Romanticism. These changes speak volumes about our culture. Drawing on the theoretical framework of the specifically Polish variety of cultural studies, this book makes Don Quixote a patron of cultural reflection. With culture conceptualised as performative, Quixotism is «the cultivation of the soul,» an axiotic space which forms human ways of life across epochs. In this way, the history of culture can be re-written as a history of values frenzy, bibliomania or evil.
Автор: Graefen, Gabriele Moll, Melanie Название: Wissenschaftssprache deutsch: lesen - verstehen - schreiben ISBN: 3631609485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631609484 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 5188.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Das Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch wendet sich an diejenigen, die an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen studieren oder wissenschaftlich arbeiten wollen und deren Muttersprache nicht Deutsch ist. Voraussetzung f r die Arbeit mit diesem Buch ist ein fortgeschrittenes Sprachniveau (C1). Angestrebt wird eine souver ne Beherrschung der Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch und damit eine wissenschaftskommunikative Kompetenz auf hohem Niveau (C2). Das Buch ist geeignet f r studienbegleitende oder -vorbereitende Kurse an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen sowie f r den weltweiten Einsatz an Universit ten, deutschen Auslandsschulen oder Sprachinstituten. Es bietet aufgrund seiner Reichhaltigkeit und durch den L sungsschl ssel im Internet motivierten Lernern auch die M glichkeit zum Selbststudium.
Автор: Shavit, Zohar Название: A Past Without Shadow ISBN: 0415969247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415969246 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Alice Conde, Jessica Gossling Название: In Cynara`s Shadow: Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson ISBN: 1787076253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787076259 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 14380.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In the 120 years since the publication of his final poetry collection, Decorations: In Verse and Prose (1899), Ernest Dowson has become something of a Decadent legend, much anthologized and referenced in almost every study of English Decadent literature, but still is considered a minor figure of the fin de si?cle. He is, in fact, an important intermediary between late nineteenth-century Decadence and literary Modernism. This first collection of critical essays devoted solely to Dowson draws him out of the shadows and acknowledges his talent and legacy. The essays in this volume by established and emergent Dowson scholars offer new perspectives on some of the most noteworthy aspects of Dowson’s oeuvre, including Catholicism and Paganism, desire and sexuality, space and place, his relationships with Decadent contemporaries including Paul Verlaine and Aubrey Beardsley, and his poetic resonance in twentieth-century literature and music.
Описание: Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he darkened the small screen with the horror genre`s most famous soap opera, Dark Shadows, and numerous made-for-TV horror movies. This second edition serves as a complete filmography, featuring each of Curtis` four-dozen productions and 100 photographs.
Автор: , Mao Xiang, Yu Huai Название: Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge: Two Memoirs about Courtesans ISBN: 0231186851 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231186858 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611-93) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (1616-96), that recall times spent with courtesans. They evoke the courtesan world in the final decades of the Ming dynasty and the aftermath of its collapse.
Автор: Dalsimer Название: Unappeasable shadow rle yeats ISBN: 1138212962 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138212961 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Yeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history. The meaning and significance Yeats gave to the entity by which he was constantly pursued and with which he held frequent colloquy have been held under the critical microscope, and the shadow has emerged alternately as the course of human history, the poet's alter-ego, his inner self, the natural man, or as anything that Yeats wanted but believed himself not to be.
This title, first published in 1988, examines the influence that Shelley had on Yeats and this 'shadow'. The study concentrates primarily on the complex influence of Shelley's Alastor on Yeats, tracing the problems it suggests and the questions it raises from Yeats's early, highly imitative poems through the austere, unromantic middle poems to the late poems where Yeats sees himself as the "last of the romantics." This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Автор: Whitaker Thomas Название: Swan and Shadow: Yeats`s Dialogue with History ISBN: 0807836850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807836859 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 9563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: History was central in a variety of ways to Yeats's poetic development and to the meaning of his work. In this study, Whitaker suggests that history was for the poet a mysterious interlocutor, which Yeats saw at times as a bright reflection of himself and again as a dark force opposed to that self. The poet's internal dialogue is viewed as projection into historical symbolism.<BR><BR>A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Автор: Cloutier Jean-Christophe Название: Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature ISBN: 0231193300 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231193306 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 13939.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers and provides a nuanced view of how archives shape literary history.
Long-lost remnants of ancient Mesopotamian religion, Anunnaki mythology and hidden mysteries of Babylonian magic are coherently revealed in the first complete esoteric guide to a very real underground "Necronomicon Legacy" from the world renown "Mardukite Research Organization" developed by Joshua Free.
World renown expert and Director of the modern "Mardukite Research Organization"--Joshua Free--invites the Seeker on an incredible occult journey into underground esoterica. This amazing guide to modern esoteric underground legacies reveals a secret living Anunnaki tradition of Babylon, forbidden knowledge lost thousands of years ago--now infused within the outlines of all magick, religion and spirituality.
Discover the secret influence of the Sumerian Anunnaki and the origins of all physical and metaphysical systems born from the Mesopotamian Mystery Tradition that directly led to Babylonian religion--a unique combination of Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Yezidic and Persian lore existing at the heart of the past century of underground occult traditions of Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant, Novem Portis: Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, and the millions of people who have read--or even used--Simon's Necronomicon.
Joshua Free candidly reveals how "spiritual beings" and "alien intelligences" have influenced imaginations of "metaphysical" writers and "fantasy" artists increasingly in the last century--"primordial gods" seeking to have their stories told and knowledge of their existence reborn. What's more, these powers appear to be behind all of the systems installed into human civilization, both social and mystical, since the time of the ancient Sumerians.
Originally published in two installments, this new10th Anniversary commemorative edition of Necronomicon Revelations--Crossing to the Abyss: The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows collects some of the most controversially pivotal contributions from the modern "Mardukite Research Organization."
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