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Book Slaves of Sultans

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  • Author : Alan Machado (Prabhu)
  • Publisher : Alan Machado
  • Release : 2015-12-24
  • ISBN : 9380739931
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book Slaves of Sultans written by Alan Machado (Prabhu) and published by Alan Machado. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaves of Sultans is a vivid descent into the turbulent period when Eupropean States fought Indian rulers with arms and ideologies for India's riches and people

Book Slavery in Turkey  The Sultan s Harem  A paper read before the Anthropological Society of London

Download or read book Slavery in Turkey The Sultan s Harem A paper read before the Anthropological Society of London written by Frederick MILLINGEN (called also Osman Bey and Vladimir Andreevich.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slaves of the Sultan

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  • Author : Allan Aldiss
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-07
  • ISBN : 9781907833014
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Slaves of the Sultan written by Allan Aldiss and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan Aldiss has written many stories about life in make-believe harems. However, this one is different. It is about life in a real harem: the harem of Abdul the Dammed, almost the last of the Sultans of Turkey, who about a hundred years ago was the all-powerful Ruler of the still vast Ottoman Empire.

Book Slaves of the Sultan

Download or read book Slaves of the Sultan written by Allan Aldiss and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavery in Turkey  The Sultan s Harem

Download or read book Slavery in Turkey The Sultan s Harem written by Frederick Millingen (Major, F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sultan s Shadow

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  • Author : Christiane Bird
  • Publisher : Random House Incorporated
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0345469402
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book The Sultan s Shadow written by Christiane Bird and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of the slave trade in the early 19th century Indian Ocean is presented through the stories of the Omani Sultan Said and his daughter, Princess Salme, offering insight into the Arabian Peninsula kingdom's lucrative growth and ties to America.

Book Slaves of the Sultan 2

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  • Author : Allan Alidiss
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-05-31
  • ISBN : 9781490311432
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Slaves of the Sultan 2 written by Allan Alidiss and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is about life in a real harem: the harem of almost the last of the Sultans of Turkey, who only a hundred years ago was the all-powerful Ruler of the still vast Ottoman Empire.

Book Sojourners  Sultans  and Slaves

Download or read book Sojourners Sultans and Slaves written by Gunja SenGupta and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves mines multinational archives to illuminate the Atlantic reverberations of US mercantile projects, "free labor" experiments, and slaveholding in western Indian Ocean societies. Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa profile transnational human rights campaigns. They show how the discourses of poverty, kinship, and care could be adapted to defend servitude in different parts of the world, revealing the tenuous boundaries that such discourses shared with liberal contractual notions of freedom. An intercontinental cast of empire builders and émigrés, slavers and reformers, a "cotton queen" and courtesans, and fugitive "slaves" and concubines populates the pages, fleshing out on a granular level the interface between the personal, domestic, and international politics of "slavery in the East" in the age of empire. By extending the transnational framework of US slavery and abolition histories beyond the Atlantic, Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa recover vivid stories and prompt reflections on the comparative workings of subaltern agency.

Book Slaves of the Sultan 1

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  • Author : Allan Aldiss
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-05-31
  • ISBN : 9781489528131
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Slaves of the Sultan 1 written by Allan Aldiss and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Misses Jane Carmichael and Helen Hamilton are secretly confined in the Imperial Harem of the cruel Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the tyrannical and brutally cruel Sultan of Turkey, known in Europe as Abdul the Damned but in the Moslem world as the Caliph, the Padishah and the Shadow of Allah on Earth.

Book A Sultan s Slave

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  • Author : Louise Gerard
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book A Sultan s Slave written by Louise Gerard and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book White Gold

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  • Author : Giles Milton
  • Publisher : John Murray
  • Release : 2012-04-12
  • ISBN : 1444717723
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book White Gold written by Giles Milton and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.

Book Islam s Black Slaves

Download or read book Islam s Black Slaves written by Ronald Segal and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Islam's Back Slaves, Ronald Segal traces the business of slavery from the birth of Islam in seventh-century Arabia to the present, where, in Sudan and Mauritania, Africans continue to be bought and sold. It is the first book for a general readership to describe in detail the Islamic slave trade. It is also a valuable corrective to the view that the enslavement of Africans was a purely European question.

Book The Sultan s Wife

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  • Author : Jane Johnson
  • Publisher : Doubleday Canada
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN : 0385670001
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book The Sultan s Wife written by Jane Johnson and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Page-turning mystery, grandly seductive romance and full historical immersion into Moroccan court history, this exquisitely depicted and intensely absorbing novel follows in the bestselling tradition of The Tenth Gift and The Salt Road. 1677, Morocco. Behind the magnificent walls and towering arches of the Palace of Meknes, captive chieftain's son and now a lowly scribe, Nus Nus is framed for murder. As he attempts to evade punishment for the bloody crime, Nus Nus finds himself trapped in a vicious plot, caught between the three most powerful figures in the court: the cruel and arbitrary sultan, Moulay Ismail, one of the most tyrannical rulers in history; his monstrous wife Zidana, famed for her use of poison and black magic; and the conniving Grand Vizier. Meanwhile, a young Englishwoman named Alys Swann has been taken prisoner by Barbary corsairs and brought to the court. She faces a simple choice: renounce her faith and join the Sultan's harem; or die. As they battle for survival, Alys and Nus Nus find themselves thrust into an unlikely alliance--an alliance that will become a deep and moving relationship in which these two outsiders will find sustenance and courage in the most perilous of circumstances. From the danger and majesty of Meknes to the stinking streets of London and the decadent court of Charles II, The Sultan's Wife brings to life some of the most remarkable characters of history through a captivating tale of intrigue, loyalty and desire.

Book Sojourners  Sultans  and Slaves

Download or read book Sojourners Sultans and Slaves written by Gunja SenGupta and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and "Slaves" mines multinational archives; profiles transnational human rights campaigns; shows how the discourses of poverty, kinship, and care could be adapted to defend servitude in different parts of the world; and reveals the tenuous boundaries that such discourses shared with Whiggish contractual notions of freedom. An intercontinental cast of empire builders and émigrés, slavers and reformers, a "cotton queen" and courtesans, and fugitive "slaves" and concubines populate the pages, fleshing out on a granular level the interface between the personal, domestic, and international politics of "slavery in the East," and in the age of empire. By extending the transnational framework of U.S. slavery and abolition histories beyond the Atlantic, Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa recover vivid stories and prompt reflections on the comparative workings of subaltern agency"--

Book Turkish Slaves in Delhi Sultanate

Download or read book Turkish Slaves in Delhi Sultanate written by Caroline Mutuku and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 1.2, , language: English, abstract: After the Mu’izz al-Din Ghuris Indian campaign and the consolidation of the conquered territory under his subordinates in the last decade of the twelfth century, the Turkish bandagan occupied many positions of influence and power in North India. Thus, when there emerged a politically paramount sultanate of Delhi under IItutmish, all the strategically important positions were given to the monarch’s senior slaves or the elite bandagan-I khass. By the end of IItutmish rule, the influence of the Turkish slave soldiers on the political structure of the sultanate administration was disproportionate to their social status (Al-Sahli, 2013). Although the Turkish slave soldiers had undergone traumatic alienation and been introduced to the Islamic faith as well as the decorum of the court as part of their training, their Turkish heritage remained unchanged. To a large extent, the early Delhi sultans, who were of Turkish origins created in their slaves the Turkish identity in order to create new bonds and identities through the process of divesting the slaves from their old relations. Scholars have noted that the sultans deliberately gave their slaves Turkish names rather than Arabic ones which would have been in tandem with the Islamic faith which they professed (Kumar, 2009). A shared Turkish ethnicity was used to reinforce the bonds between the slave soldiers and the sultan; however, it did not imply that they alienate the non-Turkish slaves. Thus, the slave soldiers were an integral part of the reproduction and sustenance of the authority of the Delhi sultanate.

Book The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire

Download or read book The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire written by George H. Junne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chief Black Eunuch, appointed personally by the Sultan, had both the ear of the leader of a vast Islamic Empire and held power over a network of spies and informers, including eunuchs and slaves throughout Constantinople and beyond. The story of these remarkable individuals, who rose from difficult beginnings to become amongst the most powerful people in the Ottoman Empire, is rarely told. George Junne places their stories in the context of the wider history of African slavery, and places them at the centre of Ottoman history. The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire marks a new direction in the study of courtly politics and power in Constantinople.

Book Empress of the East

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  • Author : Leslie Peirce
  • Publisher : Icon Books
  • Release : 2018-09-06
  • ISBN : 1785783505
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Empress of the East written by Leslie Peirce and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men. Suleyman became besotted with Roxelana and foreswore all other concubines, freeing and marrying her. The bold and canny Roxelana became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, helping Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women - Isabella of Hungary, Catherine de Medici - were increasingly close to power. Until now Roxelana has been seen by historians as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but in Empress of the East, acclaimed historian Leslie Peirce reveals with panache the compelling story of an elusive woman who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.