In 1517, the Ottoman Empire finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, turning it into a province of the Ottoman Empire and completing their conquest of the Middle East. While much has been documented about the Mamluk period until 1517, publication on the historical record about the sixteenth century reveals little from Egyptian perspectives.

Traces the process of racialization for both the Native American and wider North Carolinian populations in the decades that followed the Tuscarora War, using previously undiscovered material to chart the dehumanization that occurred as well as the repercussions of the tributary policies that were still felt nearly 200 years after the conflict.

Focuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.

In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural "feminisms" with "Chinese characteristics", they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.

If the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam, minorities, the military, the founding father. This book explores the diverse mobilization and production of history and power in the primary figures that circulate in discourse about Turkey.

With enchanting humor, social satire, and verbal dexterity, From a Distant Relation captures the world of the shtetl in a sharp realist prose style. Themes of repressed desire, poverty, relations with non-Jews, and historic upheavals echo in a cast of memorable characters.

Analyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series Scandal while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences.