A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the world
With its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as inauthentic and derivative, a view reflecting broader unease with notions of Western influence on Islamic cultures. In Ottoman Baroque—the first English-language book on the topic—Ünver Rüstem provides a compelling reassessment of this building style and shows how between 1740 and 1800 the Ottomans consciously coopted European forms to craft a new, politically charged, and globally resonant image for their empire’s capital.
Rüstem reclaims the label “Ottoman Baroque” as a productive framework for exploring the connectedness of Istanbul’s eighteenth-century buildings to other traditions of the period. Using a wealth of primary sources, he demonstrates that this architecture was in its own day lauded by Ottomans and foreigners alike for its fresh, cosmopolitan effect. Purposefully and creatively assimilated, the style’s cross-cultural borrowings were combined with Byzantine references that asserted the Ottomans’ entitlement to the Classical artistic heritage of Europe. Such aesthetic rebranding was part of a larger endeavor to reaffirm the empire’s power at a time of intensified East-West contact, taking its boldest shape in a series of imperial mosques built across the city as landmarks of a state-sponsored idiom.
Copiously illustrated and drawing on previously unpublished documents, Ottoman Baroque breaks new ground in our understanding of Islamic visual culture in the modern era and offers a persuasive counterpoint to Eurocentric accounts of global art history.

Early in his career, Adolf Hitler took inspiration from Benito Mussolini, his senior colleague in fascism―this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler and the Nazis has been almost entirely neglected: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. Stefan Ihrig’s compelling presentation of this untold story promises to rewrite our understanding of the roots of Nazi ideology and strategy.
Hitler was deeply interested in Turkish affairs after 1919. He not only admired but also sought to imitate Atatürk’s radical construction of a new nation from the ashes of defeat in World War I. Hitler and the Nazis watched closely as Atatürk defied the Western powers to seize government, and they modeled the Munich Putsch to a large degree on Atatürk’s rebellion in Ankara. Hitler later remarked that in the political aftermath of the Great War, Atatürk was his master, he and Mussolini his students.
This was no fading fascination. As the Nazis struggled through the 1920s, Atatürk remained Hitler’s “star in the darkness,” his inspiration for remaking Germany along nationalist, secular, totalitarian, and ethnically exclusive lines. Nor did it escape Hitler’s notice how ruthlessly Turkish governments had dealt with Armenian and Greek minorities, whom influential Nazis directly compared with German Jews. The New Turkey, or at least those aspects of it that the Nazis chose to see, became a model for Hitler’s plans and dreams in the years leading up to the invasion of Poland.

Evliya Celebi was the 17th century's most diligent, adventurous, and honest recorder, whose puckish wit and humor are laced throughout his ten-volume masterpiece. This brand new translation brings Evliya sparklingly back to life. ""This superb selection from the 'Seyahatname' introduces Evliya Celebi, who witnessed history, recorded ethnological facts scrupulously, and allowed his mind to range freely into the realsm of the fabulous providing us with an insider's depcition of the O-Henry Glassie, Professor Emeritus of Turkish Studies at Indiana University

1853年，沙皇尼古拉一世借宗教争端入侵今属罗马尼亚的多瑙河两公国。随后，摇摇欲坠而勉力维持其欧洲势力的奥斯曼帝国、担心俄国扩张的英国，以及想要重塑辉煌的法国皇帝拿破仑三世陆续对俄宣战。持续18个月的克里米亚战争造成了巨大的人员损失，并彻底改写了欧洲的政治格局，深刻影响了俄罗斯和土耳其的现代化进程。
费吉斯大量引用俄罗斯、法国、英国和奥斯曼帝国的文献资料，全面展现了民族主义情绪、帝国势力博弈和宗教冲突是如何影响各国介入战争的。从国王与大臣、报道战争的记者与作家，到战场上的军官与士兵、围城内的妇孺，费吉斯不仅从多个视角还原了战争的全景，也为今天理解19、20世纪的“东方问题”，黑海地区基督徒与穆斯林的关系，以及俄罗斯与西方的世界裂痕提供了新的入口。
费吉斯在伦敦、巴黎、伊斯坦布尔、莫斯科和圣彼得堡的尘封档案中仔细求索，揭露了政治家们的图谋，同时展示了战争造成的可怕人员伤亡……这本书追溯了许多现代冲突的根源。
——加里·巴斯，普林斯顿大学政治与国际事务教授
扎实的研究……内容丰富而吸引人……基于大量资料，从政府档案到新闻报道、到回忆录、到几乎不识字的士兵的家信，费吉斯出色地平衡了政治、军事和社会历史……关于战争本身的篇章如冒险小说一般激动人心……《克里米亚战争》是一场战争的集锦，一部学术的庆典。
——《波士顿环球报》
[费吉斯]在描述高层政客对普通人的影响方面展露了极其出色的天赋，清楚地呈现了引发战争的反常外交手段……这本书清晰易懂、文笔流畅、情节生动。最重要的是，它告诉我们为什么这场被忽视的冲突和为此殉难的人值得我们长久铭记。
——《独立报》
这部著作重要而让人印象深刻……俄罗斯的资料提供了鲜活的补充，在这方面费吉斯是一位大师。……《克里米亚战争》令人敬佩地描述了克里米亚战争中国际形势和宗教背景的重要意义。
——《纽约图书评论》

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even the Middle East could escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. The Great War spelled the end of the Ottomans, unleashing powerful forces that would forever change the face of the Middle East.
In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region’s crucial role in the conflict. Bolstered by German money, arms, and military advisors, the Ottomans took on the Russian, British, and French forces, and tried to provoke Jihad against the Allies in their Muslim colonies. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies’ favor. The great cities of Baghdad, Jerusalem, and, finally, Damascus fell to invading armies before the Ottomans agreed to an armistice in 1918.
The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands between the victorious powers, and laid the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.