Empire (Narratives of Empire)

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Günay-Erkol, Çimen. 2012. Post-Imperial Crises and Liminal Masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years. Journal of European Studies 42 (3): 245–260. 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

Prokopovych, Markian, Carl Bethke, and Tamara Scheer, eds. 2019. Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire. Leiden and Boston: Brill.Morris, Benny, and Dror Zeevi. 2019. The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924. Harvard: Harvard University Press. Brubaker, Rogers. 2017. Between Nationalism and Civilizationism: The European Populist Moment in Comparative Perspective. Ethnic and Racial Studies 40 (8): 1191–1226.

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 novel of pre-war politics and the dawn of the American Empire. Three men, the son of a newspaper tycoon, an aging but hale senator and the senator's poor but ambitious aide cross from the corridors of power on Capitol Hill to the drawing rooms of power in the surrounding city. Titanic events in the world at large dwarf them, but they are at the heart of the political and cultural elite and the poison and futility of politics is matched by their squalid family dealings.Barkey, Karen. 2008. Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. But while the Parvenu Olympics was tedious, the rest of the novel and Vidal's brilliant prose are a sheer pleasure to read. His characters come to life and the dialogue of the main players from President Roosevelt to Admiral Dewey and William Randolph Hearst are all superbly written. While the picture is clear however, one must never forget that Vidal shows only one half of it (or maybe 0.01%). If you don’t have money or influence you won’t appear in one of these Narratives of Empire novels. They tell the story of the players: the naughty rich who, according to Vidal and aside from the occasional crazed anarchist , were solely responsible for directing events. Mikhail, Alan, and Christine M. Philliou. 2012. The Ottoman Empire and the Imperial Turn. Comparative Studies in Society and History 54 (4): 721–745.