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  • Gods schaduw

    Hoe sultan Selim I de loop van de geschiedenis bepaalde

    par Alan Mikhail ...
    Traduit par Arian Verheij ...
    De invloed van het Ottomaanse rijk op de wereldgeschiedenis is lange tijd onderbelicht gebleven. Anders dan in West-Europa werd aangenomen, was het een brandpunt van intellectuele activiteit, geopolitieke macht en verlicht pluralistisch bestuur. Leider van de vooruitgang was de almachtige sultan Selim I (1470-1520). Geholpen door zijn begaafde moeder, Gülbahar, breidde hij het rijk enorm uit. In ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • God's Shadow

    Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

    par Alan Mikhail ...
    An “arresting” (New York Times Book Review) revisionist history demonstrating how Islam and the Ottoman Empire made our modern world.The history of the Ottoman Empire—once the most powerful state on earth, ruling over more territory and people than any other world power—has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and suppressed in the West. With this “original and wide-ranging” (Wall Street ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Newcomers

    The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York

    par Alan Mikhail ...
    **“Newcomers illuminates a vibrant, teeming story of ambition, struggle, and hard-won success, unfolding in a world that the standard accounts banish to the footnotes.” —John MattesonOne of Lithub's "Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May" and Book Culture's "Most-Anticipated New Books for May 2026"**A man thought to be a Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid fleeing poverty are hardly the ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Under Osman's Tree

    The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History

    par Alan Mikhail ...
    Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman’s empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the longest-lasting empire in the history of Islam, and offers a telling clue to its unique legacy. Underlying every aspect of the Ottoman Empire’s epic ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Water on Sand

    Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa

    Modifié par Alan Mikhail ...
    From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era. As the first holistic environmental history of the region, it shows the intimate connections between peoples and environments and how these relationships shaped political, economic, and social history in startling and unforeseen ways ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • Gottes Schatten

    Sultan Selim und die Geburt der modernen Welt

    par Alan Mikhail ...
    Traduit par Helmut Dierlamm, Heike Schlatterer ...
    Das Osmanische Reich war um 1500 das mächtigste Reich der Welt, dessen Herrschaftsgebiet sich unter Sultan Selim nahezu verdreifachte. Der preisgekrönte amerikanische HistorikerAlan Mikhail betrachtet in seinem meisterhaft erzählten Buch den Beginn der Neuzeit konsequent von diesem Reich und diesem Herrscher aus. Auf der Grundlage bisher vernachlässigter Quellen zeichnet er so ein ganz neues Bild ... En savoir plus

    $34.22 CAD

  • My Egypt Archive

    par Alan Mikhail ...
    A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt“A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy.”—Publishers WeeklyAn unmatched contemporary history of authoritarian politics and an unflinching examination of the politics of historical authority, My Egypt Archive is at once a chronicle of Egypt in the ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Animal in Ottoman Egypt

    par Alan Mikhail ...
    Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail uses the history of the empire's most important ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt

    An Environmental History

    par Alan Mikhail ...
    Collections series Studies in Environment and History
    In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

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    Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

    par John Guy, Julia Fox ...
    “A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne’s triumph and tragedy." —Tina Brown, New York Times Book Review“A sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue, and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of politics.”—Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of DevonshireA groundbreaking, freshly-researched ... En savoir plus

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  • The Man from the Future

    The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

    par Ananyo Bhattacharya ...
    **A Scientific American 2023 Staff RecommendationAn electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.**The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Insect Crisis

    The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

    par Oliver Milman ...
    A devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate.From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet’s known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD