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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the Venetian, he had some of them put to the rack by the eunuchs, and others cast into the sea by the mutes; others still, esteemed less culpable or excused on the score of youth, were banished into the island of Rhodes, and recalled afterwards to marry the favorites of the Sultan.Meanwhile these intrigues, long pursued around the young prince, ended with instilling into his mind unjust suspicions against the virtue of Safiye. He removed her for a moment from his bed, and gave himself up with the impetuosity of youth to the excesses of a passion artificially fomented by his corruptors in his veins. The extravagance and frenzy of his caprices caused a rise, before even his advent to the throne, in the price of beautiful slaves of all nations in the bazaars of Broussa and of Trebizond. The number of the Sultanas Khasseki or mothers of boys, amounted, says the historian Ali, to forty; that of the women of his harem, passing objects of his caprices, to five hundred. Over one hundred children, sons or daughters of these slaves, were born in a few years of these disorders. The government of his harem gave him more trouble than that of his empire. His mother advised him to assign it after herself to a favorite of his father, named Djanfeda. Djan- feda was consummate in the intrigues and the administration of the seraglio. We will presently see the ascendant, the elevation and the tragic destiny of this woman, veritable vizier of a prince of whom the sole serious business was a sickly sensuality.But even these vices were unable to extinguish in the heart of Mourad the remembrance of the first and pure felicity which he enjoyed in his chaste union with Safiye. Memory and repentance restored to the Venetian all her moral influence over her husband. The others had his debauches; she ... ... Read more

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Drawing on indiscreet private letters, this biography provides the first full assessment of a consul whose influence with both British and Turkish officials was often thought malign: Gerald Fitzmaurice (1865-1939), who served in Constantinople before the First World War. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Chapters: Trees of Turkey, Pistachio, Acer Pseudoplatanus, Bay Laurel, Acer Campestre, Corylus Colurna, Cretan Date Palm, Tilia Dasystyla. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Acer campestre Field Maple flowersAcer campestre , common name Field Maple , is a maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple), Denmark , Poland and Belarus , and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus , and north Africa in the Atlas Mountains . In North America it is known as Hedge Maple and in Australia it is sometimes called Common Maple. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree reaching 15-25 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter, with finely fissured, often somewhat corky bark . The shoots are brown, with dark brown winter buds . The leaves are in opposite pairs, 5-16 cm long (including the 3-9 cm petiole) and 5 10 cm broad, with five blunt, rounded lobes with a smooth margin. Usually monoecious , the flowers are produced in spring at the same time as the leaves open, yellow-green, in erect clusters 4-6 cm across, and are insect pollinated. The fruit is a samara with two winged seeds aligned at 180º, each seed 8-10 mm wide, flat, with a 2 cm wing. There are two varieties , not accepted as distinct by all authorities: The closely related Acer miyabei replaces it in eastern Asia. Ecology A Field Maple in autumn, in France.Field Maple is an intermediate species in the succession of disturbed areas; it typically is not among the first trees to colonise a freshly disturbed area, but instead seeds in under the existing vegetation. It is very shade-tolerant during the initial stages of its life, but it has higher light requirements during its seed-bearing years. It exhibits rapid growth initially, but is eventually overtaken and replaced by other trees as th... ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1878 edition by Macmillan and Co., London. ... Read more

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Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon PresPublication date: 1915Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1854 edition by Hurst and Blackett, London. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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The Ghazi Sultans were frontier holy-warrior kings of late medieval and early modern Islamic history. This book is a comparative study of three particular Ghazis in the Muslim world at that time, demonstrating the extent to which these men were influenced by the actions and writings of their predecessors in shaping strategy and the way in which they saw themselves.

Using a broad range of Persian, Arabic and Turkish texts, the author offers new findings in the history of memory and self-fashioning, demonstrating thereby the value of intertextual approaches to historical and literary studies. The three main themes explored include the formation of the ideal of the Ghazi king in the eleventh century, the imitation thereof in fifteenth and early sixteenth century Anatolia and India, and the process of transmission of the relevant texts. By focusing on the philosophical questions of ‘becoming’ and ‘modelling’, Anooshahr has sought alternatives to historiographic approaches that only find facts, ideology, and legitimization in these texts.

This book will be of interest to scholars specialising in Medieval and early modern Islamic history, Islamic literature, and the history of religion.