Download or read book The Dragoman Renaissance written by E. Natalie Rothman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Dragoman Renaissance, E. Natalie Rothman traces how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-interpreters, known as the dragomans, systematically engaged Ottoman elites in the study of the Ottoman Empire—eventually coalescing in the discipline of Orientalism—throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rothman challenges Eurocentric assumptions still pervasive in Renaissance studies by showing the centrality of Ottoman imperial culture to the articulation of European knowledge about the Ottomans. To do so, she draws on a dazzling array of new material from a variety of archives. By studying the sustained interactions between dragomans and Ottoman courtiers in this period, Rothman disrupts common ideas about a singular moment of "cultural encounter," as well as about a "docile" and "static" Orient, simply acted upon by extraneous imperial powers. The Dragoman Renaissance creatively uncovers how dragomans mediated Ottoman ethno-linguistic, political, and religious categories to European diplomats and scholars. Further, it shows how dragomans did not simply circulate fixed knowledge. Rather, their engagement of Ottoman imperial modes of inquiry and social reproduction shaped the discipline of Orientalism for centuries to come. Thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Download or read book The Bone Fire written by György Dragomán and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for Le prix du Meilleur livre tranger (France) * A Finalist for the Premio von Rezzori (Italy) * Longlisted for the Prix Femina (France) From an award-winning and internationally acclaimed European writer, and for fans of The Tiger's Wife A chilling and suspenseful novel set in the wake of a violent revolution about a young girl rescued from an orphanage by an otherworldly grandmother she's never met
Download or read book The Dragoman s Secret written by Otis Adelbert Kline and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2022 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khallaf the Strong inflicted dire tortures on Hamed the Attar, and would have done him to death had not a beautiful woman intervened. Classic historical fantasy, first published in the Spring 1931 issue of Oriental Stories magazine. Introduction by Karl Wurf.
Download or read book The Dragoman s Tales written by Otis Adelbert Kline and published by www.PulpFictionBook.Store. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dragoman’s Tales (1931-1933) – In these seven stories, Hamed the Dragoman will take tourists who come to his city, to the coffee shop of Silat where he tells tales of his life, his loves, his intrigues and his battles. The Man Who Limped The strange and disagreeable adventure of Hamed the Attar, and how he overcame his perverse hatred of women. The Dragoman’s Revenge Hamed the Attar was accused of a foul murder he did not commit—a strange tale of Arab justice. The Dragoman’s Secret Khallaf the Strong inflicted dire tortures on Hamed the Attar, and would have done him to death. A novelette of five chapters. The Dragoman’s Slave Girl A fascinating story of Hamed the Attar, which has all the glamor of “The Arabian Nights.” A novelette of seven chapters The Dragoman’s Jest The exciting story of a jest that turned into deadly earnest—a tale of a beautiful woman, desert warfare, and the slave-train of the bandit ibn Sakr The Dragoman’s Confession A smashing action-adventure story about an Arabian dragoman’s love for a beautiful Chinese girl. A novella of twelve chapters The Dragoman’s Pilgrimage A story of the utterly strange and amazing adventure that befell Hamed the Dragoman in the holy city of Mecca. A novelette of five chapters
Download or read book Narrating the Dragoman s Self in the Veneto Ottoman Balkans c 1550 1650 written by Stefan Hanß and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This microhistory of the Salvagos—an Istanbul family of Venetian interpreters and spies travelling the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mediterranean—is a remarkable feat of the historian’s craft of storytelling. With his father having been killed by secret order of Venice and his nephew to be publicly assassinated by Ottoman authorities, Genesino Salvago and his brothers started writing self-narratives. When crossing the borders of words and worlds, the Salvagos’ self-narratives helped navigate at times beneficial, other times unsettling entanglements of empire, family, and translation. The discovery of an autobiographical text with rich information on Southeastern Europe, edited here for the first time, is the starting point of this extraordinary microbiography of a family’s intense struggle for manoeuvring a changing world disrupted by competition, betrayal, and colonialism. This volume recovers the Venetian life stories of Ottoman subjects and the crucial role of translation in negotiating a shared but fragile Mediterranean. Stefan Hanß examines an interpreter’s translational practices of the self and recovers the wider Mediterranean significance of the early modern Balkan contact zone. Offering a novel conversation between translation studies, Mediterranean studies, and the history of life-writing, this volume argues that dragomans’ practices of translation, border-crossing, and mobility were key to their experiences and performances of the self. This book is an indispensable reading for the history of the early modern Mediterranean, self-narratives, Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, as well as the history of translation. Hanß presents a truly fascinating narrative, a microhistory full of insights and rich perspectives.
Download or read book Tales of my Dragoman A series of satires not altogether Oriental Originally published in Colburn s New Monthly Magazine written by W. Arnati WHITE and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of my dragoman orig publ in Colburn s New monthly mag written by W Arnati- White and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dragoman written by George Kean Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mediterraneans written by Julia Ann Clancy-Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers a picture of the Mediterranean before, and during, French colonialism. It tells the story of migrants, travelers, and adventurers who traversed the Mediterranean, changing it forever. It also looks at how an Arab-Muslim state and society made room for the newcomers.
Download or read book The White King written by György Dragomán and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international sensation, this startling and heartbreaking debut recounts the adventures of eleven-year-old Djata in one life-changing year. To be published in twenty countries around the world this spring. Djata doesn't know what to make of the two men who lead his father away one day, or understand why his mother bursts into tears when he brings her tulips on her anniversary. He does know that he must learn to fill his father's shoes, even though among his friends he is still a boy: fighting neighborhood gang wars, volunteering to dig ditches, playing soccer on radioactive grass, having inappropriate crushes, sneaking into secret screening rooms, and shooting at stray cats with his gun-happy (and politically influential) grandfather. But this depiction of life in a totalitarian state--the only world Djata knows--is tempered by the sheer, hilarious absurdity of the situations he finds himself in, by his enduring faith in his father's return, and by the moments of unexpected beauty and hope and the small acts of kindness that mark out any life. As in the works of Mark Haddon, David Mitchell, and Marjane Satrapi, Djata's child's-eye view lends a power and immediacy to his story, making us laugh and ache in recognition and reminding us all of our shared humanity.
Download or read book Colburn s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Quantum Classical Analogies written by Daniela Dragoman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is unanimously accepted that the quantum and the classical descriptions of the physical reality are very different, although any quantum process is "mysteriously" transformed through measurement into an observable classical event. Beyond the conceptual differences, quantum and classical physics have a lot in common. And, more important, there are classical and quantum phenomena that are similar although they occur in completely different contexts. For example, the Schrödinger equation has the same mathematical form as the Helmholtz equation, there is an uncertainty relation in optics very similar to that in quantum mechanics, and so on; the list of examples is very long. Quantum-classical analogies have been used in recent years to study many quantum laws or phenomena at the macroscopic scale, to design and simulate mesoscopic devices at the macroscopic scale, to implement quantum computer algorithms with classical means, etc. On the other hand, the new forms of light – localized light, frozen light – seem to have more in common with solid state physics than with classical optics. So these analogies are a valuable tool in the quest to understand quantum phenomena and in the search for new (quantum or classical) applications, especially in the area of quantum devices and computing.
Download or read book The Cruise of the Celtic Around the Mediterranean 1902 written by R. H. McCready and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine written by Josias Leslie Porter and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Egypt written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
