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Book Reviews

The Empire Writes Back

Review of: Prince Ali Vasib, Memoirs of an Ottoman Prince (Istanbul, Timas Publishing, 2017); Prince Arfa, Memoirs of a Bygone Age. Qajar Persia and Imperial Russia 1853–1902, Michael Noel-Clarke, trans. and ed. (London, Gingko Library, 2016); Youssouf Bey: The Charged Portraits of Fin-de-Siècle Pera, Bahattin Oztuncay, Sinan Kuneralp, et al, eds (Istanbul, Vehbi Koc Foundation, 2016); Pierre Loti et les Silhouettes de Hassan, Erol Makzume, Hélène Corbiere et al, eds (Istanbul, Gezegen Basim san, 2017); Twenty Years under the Reign of Abdulhamid. The Memoirs and Works of Fausto Zonaro, Erol Makzume and Cesare Mario Trevigne, eds (Istanbul, Genis Kitaplik 2011); and Halid Ziya Usakligil, Memoir of the Ottoman Palace 1909–1912, Douglas Scott Brookes, trans. and ed. (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2019).

Pages 268-272 | Published online: 08 Dec 2022
 

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1 The flight of Muslims from the Balkans is the subject of a compelling new book, with much material new to English-language readers, by William H. Holt: The Balkan Reconquista and Turkey’s Forgotten Refugee Crisis (Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 2019).

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Philip Mansel

Philip Mansel

Philip Mansel’s latest book is King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV, published by Penguin in 2019 and the University of Chicago Press in 2020. His books on the Ottoman Empire include Sultans in Splendour (1989); and Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire (1995). He is a co-founder of the Society for Court Studies and the Levantine Heritage Foundation, devoted to the history and cultures of the eastern Mediterranean: www.levantineheritage.com.

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