On the Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman lands in later times, see Aron Rodrigue, ed., Ottoman and Turkish Jewry: Community and Leadership (Bloomington, 1992); Avigdor Levy, The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton, 1992); Stanford J.
The first mention of Prester John in a Western source appears to be that of the German ecclesiastical historian Otto, bishop of Freising. In 1145, Otto tells us, he had a meeting in Viterbo in Italy with the bishop of ...
... 1607–1755 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000) and The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756–1775 (Westport, CT Praeger, 2001); and two works by Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the ...
This book, now available in paperback, focuses instead on the cultural encounters between European explorers and non-European people, reconstructing the experiences of both sides.
"Ethnography by a political scientist focuses on how urban poor have changed their perceptions of the State, citizenship, class and gender relations, and democracy and have movilized radical social movements.
This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical ...
Cultures in Conflict: Essays on Literature & the English Language in South East Asia
This book, now available in paperback, focuses instead on the cultural encounters between European explorers and non-European people, reconstructing the experiences of both sides.
It is these cultural encounters, their meaning in the context of the Seven Years' War, and their impact on the war and its diplomatic settlement that are the subjects of this volume.