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Women in the Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture and History 9780755610037, 9781845115050
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Three women from the province of Salonika in Macedonia. From left to right: Jewish, Christian (Bulgar from Prilip), and Muslim. Photograph by Pascal Sébah. Osman Hamdi and Marie de Launay, Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873. Ouvrage publié sous le patronage de la Commission impériale ottomane pour l’Exposition universelle de Vienne (Constantinople: Imprimerie du “Levant Times & Shipping Gazette,” 1873).
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Figure 5.1 A tobacco processing factory at the beginning of the twentieth century. Beth Hatefutsoth, Photography Archives, Tel Aviv. Greece, Salonika, 322/111.47.
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Figure 5.2 Six young women picking tobacco leaves under the supervision of the husband of one of them and his brother, c. 1920. Courtesy of the Mattaraso Family, Haifa.
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Figure 5.3 Prostitutes in the Bara (Vardar district). Detail of an anonymous po
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Children’s Historical Fiction – Ottoman Empire
Although one of the world’s longest running and most powerful empires we haven’t found much on the Ottoman Empire. But we have found a couple of gems.
Abraham Hannibal and the Battle For the Throne
Frances Mary Somers Cocks (Author), Eric Robson (Illustrator)
The second book in the Abraham Hannibal series, this quirky, Â fascinating book explores life as a slave gardener in the palace of the Ottoman Sultan in the early 1700s.
Read full review of Abraham HannibalÂ
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1584858311/?tag=liviandlear-21
Leyla: The Black Tulip (Girls of Many Lands)
Alev Lytle Croutier (Author)
Set in 1720′s this charts the story of a young girl tricked into slavery and taken to the Sultan’s palace in Istanbul, the heart of the Ottoman Empire.
Read full review of Leyla
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Leyla: The Black Tulip
Leyla: The Black Tulip (Girls of Many Lands)
By Alev Lytle Croutier
Set in 1720’s this charts the story of a ung girl tricked into slavery and taken to the Sultan’s palace in Istanbul, the heart of the Ottoman Empire.
We really enjoyed the way the book balances the hardships of slavery with the security and opportunity of the harem. Leyla fryst vatten desperately poor and the harem provides her with a living, but at the price of her freedom and family. It manages to avoid the harem cliché of women competing for the sultans’s favours and focuses on the ordinary everyday life of women in harem. It glosses over the reality of the eunuchs, but with enough details to man it realistic enough for those with some understanding – a cleverly balanced line that allows for further examination of these issues, or not, depending on your own judgement.  The authors’ expertise on the harem shines through. The focus on the gardens and the tulip