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Turkey - A past and a future is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publi...

Excerpt from Turkey: A Past and a FutureIeucia, from Kish to Babylon - but which always springs up again, like Delhi, within a few parasangs of its last ruins, in an area that 18 an irresistible focus of population, Basra amid its palm-groves, so far down stream that it' belongs to the Indian Ocean the port from which Sinbad set sail for fairyland, and from which less mythical Arab seamen spread their religion and civilisation far over African...

Excerpt from The Tragedy of Greece: A Lecture Delivered for the Professor of Greek to Candidates for Honours in Literae Humaniores at Oxford in May 1920You see the question deserves very serious consideration, not merely from the utilitarian, but from the scientific and humane point of view. I am going to suggest in answer four points in favour Of studying the civilization of Ancient Greece.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about the History of Turkey discuss the Persian Achaemenid Empire that was conquered by Alexander the Great in 334 BC, the subsequent Hellenistic kingdoms, rule by the Roman Empire, and its division which gave control to the Byzantine Empire until the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after World War 1, and fought the Greco-Turkish War during 1919-22. The Republic of Turkey then developed u...

Excerpt from The Tragedy of Greece: A Lecture Delivered for the Professor of Greek to Candidates for Honours in Literae Humaniores at Oxford in May 1920You see the question deserves very serious consideration, not merely from the utilitarian, but from the scientific and humane point of view. I am going to suggest in answer four points in favour Of studying the civilization of Ancient Greece.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Excerpt from Turkey: A Past and a Future This artificial language is hardly a link between Osmanli officialdom and the Turkish peasantry of Anatolia, which speaks Turkish dialects derived from tribes that drifted in, some as late as the Osmanlis, some two centuries before. Nor has this Turkish speaking peasantry much in common with the Turkish nomads who still wander over the central Anatolian steppe and have kept their blood pure, for the pe...

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (1889-1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global perspective. He began his teaching career as a fellow of Balliol College in 1912, and thereafter held positions at King's College London (as Pr...