Tabla de Contenidos: “…The encounter with the Ottoman heritage: imperial grandeur, medieval decay, and double discourses -- The encounter with the Islamic past: Turks, Arabs and Persians -- Seljuks of rum in the Turkish national(ist) imagination from the late Ottoman empire to the republican era -- The depiction of European feudalism, the Middle Ages, and the crusades in late Ottoman and Turkish republican imagery -- From "renewal and regeneration" to "decline and collapse": the rise and fall of Tanzimat (1839-1950) -- Infusing the young spirits with the motivation to oppose and counter oppression: revolution and the French revolution…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Madison's war -- Christmas in Ghent -- Along the mighty Mississip' -- A nation at last…”

“…Essays on theory, narratives, and nation in the Americas…”