Jan Schmidt

The Joys of Philology: Orientalists, travellers, and merchants in the Ottoman Empire, Political relations between Europe and the Porte

Arnoud Vrolijk

Karin Scheper

Diplomat Levinus Warner (1618-1665) was commissioned in 1655 to represent the Dutch interests at the court of the sultan of the Ottoman Empire. His interest in the language and cultures of the Middle East meant that by his death he brough a huge collection of manuscripts from the region together. Besides the collection of Levinus Warner, this beautiful book also traces the history of the Ottoman Empire and the personal history of Levinus Warner, focusing on the interest of Westerners in Istanbul at the point in time.

Oriental collection of Levinus Warner, Dutch diplomat in seventeenth-century Istanbul

This catalogue decribes in a detailed and systematic way the rich and varied collection of Turkish manuscripts preserved in the John Rylands University Library in Manchester.

A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library at Manchester

Barbara Flemming

Karl Süssheim

The orientalist Karl Suessheim kept his Diary in Turkish - and later in Arabic - from his early years in the Ottoman Empire through the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and after his return to Germany, through war, revolution, and the horrors of Nazi rule. This book presents selected episodes in translation from the surviving parts of Suessheim's Diary, covering the years 1908 to 1940. In its detached style it allows the reader a remarkable insight into Suessheim's family surroundings, his academic career at Munich University, and the eventful times he lived through. Flemming and Schmidt aim at providing at once an intimate impression of, and a monument to, one of the great diarists of the last century. To illuminate the issues for a broad range of readers, the selected texts from the Diary are situated against the background of contemporary events and fully annotated. "Erst die kommentierte �bersetzung der Tagebuecher gibt Suessheim sein Leben zurueck, macht aus dem Vergessenen und Unbekannten einen an allem interessierten Menschen im Wirbel des dramatischen Geschehens der ersten H�lfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts [�] in diesem Buch entsteht ein Leben, das den Leser in den Bann zieht. Es ist die Lebensgeschichte eines genialen Autodidakten, der durch seine bedingungslose Liebe zum Orient zu einem Au�enseiter wurde." FAZ �Flemming and Schmidt have done a remarkable job and the resulting work presents a valuable historical source.� Jahrbuch fuer Europ�ische �berseegeschichte "There is more, much more, in this impeccably researched and translated work than can be mentioned in the space of a short review." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Orientalist Between Munich and Istanbul

The Diary of Karl Süssheim (1878-1947)

The Joys of Philology: Poetry, historiography, biography and autobiography

Katja Schmidtpott

Though when people discuss World War I, they usually center on the fighting in Europe, it truly was a global war. This book examines the role of East Asia in the fighting. It looks at how East Asian commentators saw and interpreted the war, both in Europe and elsewhere, and what lessons they drew from the experience for their own societies. What influence did World War I have on East Asian visions of the world order? Presenting scholarship by a number of East Asian authors in English for the first time, the book greatly expands our understanding of World War I and its effects.

Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919

The East Asian Dimension of the First World War

Ana Paula Pires

María Inés Tato

This volume deals with the multiple impacts of the First World War on societies from South Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, usually largely overlooked by the historiography on the conflict. Due to the lesser intensity of their military involvement in the war (neutrals or latecomers), these countries or regions were considered "peripheral" as a topic of research. However, in the last two decades, the advances of global history recovered their importance as active wartime actors and that of their experiences. This book will reconstruct some experiences and representations of the war that these societies built during and after the conflict from the prism of mediators between the war fought in the battlefields and their homes, as well as the local appropriations and resignifications of their experiences and testimonies.

African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators

The Global First World War

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This edition of the German Assyriologist Fritz Rudolf Kraus' correspondence, who spent 13 years in exile in Turkey from 1937 to 1950, forms an important source for a turbulent period in the history of both Turkey and Germany.

Der deutsche Assyriologe Fritz Rudolf Kraus und sein Briefwechsel im türkischen Exil.

Dreizehn Jahre Istanbul (1937-1949) (2 vols)

Rajesh Heynickx

Luc Verpoest

Leen Engelen

Pieter Uyttenhove

Pieter Verstraete

The challenges of post-war recovery from social and political reform to architectural design In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took place against the backdrop of mass mourning and remembrance, political violence and economic crisis. At the same time, the post-war tabula rasa offered many opportunities for innovation in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of post-war recovery and revival is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into post-war revival in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how their efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States.

Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform

Revival After the Great War

Willy Vande Walle

Japanese Cultural Identity and Modernity in The 1920s

Japan's Book Donation to the University of Louvain

The book, two text editions with translations, offers a lively picture of the Ottoman world in the early 1900s as witnessed by the German orientalist Karl Süssheim and the Young Turk officer İsma’il Hakkı Bey.

Two Unexplored Sources from the Last Decade in the Reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II

The Orientalist Karl Süssheim Meets the Young Turk Officer İsma'il Hakki Bey

Jan Schmidt

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