A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez explores the

A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a way to understanding emerging civic culture in the Ottoman Empire.

A history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-distance

Learning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first p

In recent years we have become interested in the diffusion of “small” Western technologies in the countries of the Middle East during the 19th and 20th cent