Author: Marie-Christine Varol-Bornes
Publisher:
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Combines the best in wealth of vocabulary, important knowledge of grammar, and authentic sources of the oral and written language, reflecting the language and culture of the Jews expelled from Spain.
Author: Catharina Williams-van Klinken
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Author: Arpita Bhawal
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 9384391239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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A young woman who can smell dead people desperately seeks recognition for her gift. A mother consumed with envy denies her daughter justice against a capital crime. A dyslexic orphan who floats through life in the shadow of her aunt hopes to grasp a piece of paradise. A middle-aged spinster possessed in physical love craves for a divine union. The socialite who nearly successfully battles her shopping addiction faces an unexpected roadblock to recovery. Vices of Eden, Arpita Bhawal’s debut short story collection, is based on the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath and Sloth, and the Last Four Things: Death, Judgment, Hell and Heaven. The stories explore the complex and conflicting relationship women have with sin in our contemporary world. Vices of Eden reveals fragments and shades of every woman’s life story, filled with passion, desperation and hope.
Author: Francis W. Carter
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Author: Peter F. Sugar
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295803630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 provides an over-all picture of the least studied and most obscured part of Balkan history, the Ottoman period. The book begins with the early history of the Ottomans and with their establishment in Europe, describing the basic Muslim and Turkish features of the Ottoman state. The author goes on in subsequent sections to show how these features influenced every aspect of life in the European lands administered directly by the Ottomans (the "core" provinces) and left a permanent mark on states that were vassals of or paid tribute to the empire. Whether dealing with the "core" provinces of Rumelia or with the vassal and tribute-paying states (Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, and Dubrovik), the author offers fresh insights and new interpretations, as well as a wealth of information on Balkan political, economic, and social history not available elsewhere. The appendixes include lists of dynasties and rulers with whom the Ottomans dealt, as well as data for the House of Osman and some of the grand viziers; a chronology of major military campaigns, peace treaties, and territory gained and lost by the Ottoman Empire in Europe from 1354 to 1804; and glossaries of geographical names and foreign terms.
Author: John R. Lampe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253303684
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Western economic historians have traditionally concentrated on the success stories of major developed economies, while development economists have given most of their attnetion to the problems of the Third World. The authors of this pioneering work study a part of Europe neglected by both approaches. Modernizing patterns in Balkan economic history are traced from the sixteenth century (when the territory was shared by Ottoman and Habsburg empires), through the nineteenth century (when they emerged as independent states), to the end of World War II and its aftermath. Despite present differences in economic systems—Greece's private market economy, Yugoslavia's planned market economy, and the centrally planned economies of Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania—the authors find that shared origins and common subsequent experiences are ample justifications for treating the area as an economic unit. Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950 will be a major case study for development economists and will provide historians with the first analytical and statistical study to survey the entire region from the start of the early modern period.
Author: Stevan K. Pavlowitch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317900162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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The Balkans have often been a flashpoint of conflict in European history. The recent civil war has torn the country apart and the region faces an uncertain future. This authoritative study provides an account of the history of the whole area from the first major nationalist rising against its Ottoman rulers in 1804 to the aftermath of World War II. Covering the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania , it provides a Balkan-wide overview as well as histories of specific states and sets the context to the recent conflict.
Author: BOH
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594802041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Charles Jelavich
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295803609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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This highly readable and thoroughly researched volume offers an excellent account of the development of seven Balkan peoples during the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries. Professors Charles and Barbara Jelavich have brought their rich knowledge of the Albanians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Greeks, Romanians, Serbians, and Slovenes to bear on every aspect of the area’s history--political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural. It took more than a century after the first Balkan uprising, that of the Serbians in 1804, for the Balkan people to free themselves from Ottoman and Habsburg rule. The Serbians and the Greeks were the first to do so; the Albanians, the Croatians, and the Slovenes the last. For each people the national revival took its own form and independence was achieved in its own way. The authors explore the contrasts and similarities among the peoples, within the context of the Ottoman Empire and Europe.
Author: Barbara Jelavich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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