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UNINA9910452354903321 |
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Autore |
Hillenbrand Carole |
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Titolo |
Turkish myth and Muslim symbol : the battle of Manzikert / / Carole Hillenbrand [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007 |
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0-7486-7135-8 |
1-281-25223-9 |
9786611252236 |
0-7486-3115-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Manzikert, Battle of, Turkey, 1071 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- The twelfth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert -- The thirteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert -- The fourteenth- and fifteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert -- Writing the battle -- The ongoing Muslim-Christian confrontation : the victorious contribution of the Turks -- The heritage of Manzikert : the myth of national identity. |
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Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the identity and role of the Turks, both as Muslims and as an ethnic group, still remain little known in the west and undervalued in the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds. This book contributes to historical scholarship on Turkey by focusing on its key foundational myth, the battle of Manzikert in 1071 – the Turkish equivalent of the battle of Hastings. Manzikert destroyed the hold of Christian Byzantium on eastern Turkey and opened the whole country to the spread of Islam, a process completed with the fall of Constantinople and Trebizond some four centuries later. Translations and a close analysis of all the extant Muslim sources – both Arabic and Persian – which deal with the battle of Manzikert are provided in the |
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book. It also looks at these writings as literary works and vehicles of religious ideology and analyses the ongoing confrontation between the Muslim Turks and Christian Europe and the importance of Manzikert in the formation of the modern state of Turkey since 1923. |
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UNINA9910524897703321 |
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Autore |
Hoffer Williamjames |
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Titolo |
To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / / Williamjames Hull Hoffer |
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2007 |
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©2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Reconfiguring American political history |
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Debates and debating - United States |
Federal government - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Politics and government 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-248) and index. |
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Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely |
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satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted". |
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The "second stateera, Hoffer contends, offers valuable insight into how conceptions of American uniqueness contributed to the shape of the federal government. |
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