Stergar, Rok, and Tamara Scheer. 2018. Ethnic Boxes: the Unintended Consequences of Habsburg Bureaucratic Classification. Nationalities Papers 46 (4): 575–591.

Mikhail, Alan, and Christine M. Philliou. 2012. The Ottoman Empire and the Imperial Turn. Comparative Studies in Society and History 54 (4): 721–745.A German-Austria (Deutschösterreich) is created out of the remaining (German-speaking) part of the Habsburg Empire. Various partition plans for the Ottoman Empire; Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk This is a wonderful collection of studies that illuminates the Habsburg and Ottoman cases in new ways by placing them in dialogue with each other,showing multiple ways that we can close the breach between the two historiographies.Despite all of their differences – of language, religion, and political structure – the histories of both empires benefit from being seen through the lens of the other. Specialists in both empires will have epiphanies about their own and the other empire in reading the contributions herein. This will surely be a generative work for a field still in its infancy.” A circle of political intellectuals and enterprising newspaper editors learn of the power they wield as they both push for and chronicle the growth of the American Empire at the turn of the 20th Century Feichtinger, Johannes, and Gary B. Cohen, eds. 2014. Understanding Multiculturalism: Central Europe and the Habsburg Experience. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Last year that changed. I read Philip Roth's 'The Plot Against America' and found it to be so plausible (and frightening) that the worth of historical fiction became apparent. That is, if it's handled effectively. Cleveland, William L. 2015. The Making of an Arab Nationalist: Ottomanism and Arabism in the Life and Thought of Sati’ Al-Husri. Princeton: Princeton University Press. I liked the novel and the way the next generation of these powerful families each had to find their own way of coping with the expectations of their parents. We get to know Enid and Peter, the daughter and son of Blaise Sanford, and Diana, the daughter of Senator Day, and their various trials as they attempt to make sense of Washington and it's fishbowl atmosphere. We also see the challenges as Senator Day and Clay Overbury both aspire to power and cross swords as the younger Overbury seeks to gain his own platform. Vidal juggles characters and historical facts so adeptly that a clear picture emerges of this crucial moment for the nascent American empire. Our conversation, edited for length and clarity, is below. Edgerton and Malik discussed whether the legacy of the British Empire has been ignored or overstated, the changing nature of British conservatism, and what the response to the Queen’s death says about the United Kingdom.A concept referring to the historical name for Dalmatia. After Napoleon made the ‘Illyrian provinces’ into a short-lived state, the term was taken up by early Croat nationalists Josephinism: Arabic: ‘upswing’): movement promoting an intellectual and cultural revival in the late nineteenth century Arab world Neo-Ottomanism: This is a story of political life in Washington among congressmen, the press and the social elites during the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower Yilmaz. 2006. Ottomanism vs. Kemalism: Collective Memory and Cultural Pluralism in 1990s Turkey. Middle Eastern Studies 42 (4): 587–602. Trumbull, George R. 2017. The Environmental Turn in Middle East History. International Journal of Middle East Studies 49 (1): 173–180.

Kraus, Wolfgang. 2000. Das erzählte Selbst. Die narrative Konstruktion von Identität in der Spätmoderne. Herbolzheim: Centaurus. Unlike the Roth novel, this is not exactly the stuff of emotional horror; still, the read is a swift one, bolstered by Vidal's elegant writing. Gore is more of a master than Roth when it comes to turning a phrase. World War. The Ottoman Empire resists at Gallipoli but gradually loses the Near East; the Armenians Polt-Heinzl, Evelyne. 2015. Ringstraßenzeit und Wiener Moderne: Porträt einer literarischen Epoche des Übergangs. Wien: Sonderzahl.Am I optimistic that it’s going to happen? Not judging by the extreme resistance to any talk about the Royal Family as a symbol of inequality or of how oligarchy can use its power to appropriate British laws, which the British Royal Family has done to its advantage, and has got away with it. If we don’t have these conversations, there’s no way that we can come to any sort of mature analysis of how we get out of the current crisis in the U.K. For many residents of the United Kingdom, the death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted questions about how the country is transitioning—substantively and symbolically—into a new era. Elizabeth ascended the throne seventy years ago, as the country was recovering from the Second World War and was in the process of losing its empire. More recently, British voters opted to leave the European Union; Liz Truss, the current Prime Minister, who took office the same week as the Queen’s death, is arguably the most right-wing leader in the country’s recent history. Jaulin, Thibaut. 2014. Citizenship, Migration, and Confessional Democracy in Lebanon. Middle East Law and Governance 6: 250–271.

At that level, this is a clever novel of intrigue and family dynamics. It’s never subtle enough to be fully engaging, but it’s interesting, and you can glimpse real characters in the stereotypes from which they’re born. Deak, John. 2015. Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War. Stanford: Stanford UP. Nascido em 1925, em Nova Iorque, estudou na Academia de Phillips Exeter (Estado de New Hampshire). O seu primeiro romance, Williwaw (1946), era uma história da guerra claramente influenciada pelo estilo de Hemingway. Embora grande parte da sua obra tenha a ver com o século XX americano, Vidal debruçou-se várias vezes sobre épocas recuadas, como, por exemplo, em A Search for the King (1950), Juliano (1964) e Creation (1981). E quanto está custando? - Hay sabia, pelo brilho dos olhos de Adams, que a resposta seria altamente desagradável. Blumi, Isa. 2016. Reorientating European Imperialism: How Ottomanism Went Global. Die Welt des Islams 56 (3–4): 290–316.This much-welcomed volume undertakes for the first time to provide a comparative perspective on late Habsburg and Ottoman imperial legacies. Exploring a variety of distinct forms of modern narratives, the book convincingly reclaims the multi-layered past and presence of the two empires and their multi-confessional and multi-cultural societies. An important and engaging book.”— Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central European University, Budapest Fisher-Onar, Nora. 2009. Echoes of a Universalism Lost: Rival Representations of the Ottomans in Today’s Turkey. Middle Eastern Studies 45 (2): 229–241. Mignon, Laurent. 2005. Neither Shiraz nor Paris: Papers on Modern Turkish Literature. Istanbul: Isis Press.