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UC Press Award-Winning Authors

Jul 07 2022
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from May & June 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Emily Baughan Grace Abbott Book Prize Shortlist 2022Society for
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Virtual Q&A with Giancarlo Casale, Editor and Translator of Prisoner of the Infidels

Oct 01 2021
A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the seventeenth-century memoir of Osman Agha of Timişoara—slave, adventurer, and diplomat—into English for the first time. The sweeping story of Osman’s life begins upon his capture and subsequent enslavement during the
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The Intimate Lives of 17th-Century Women, Seen through the Eyes of a Muslim Slave

Sep 07 2021
By Giancarlo Casale, editor and translator of Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century EuropeBefore the dawn of our narcissistic modern age, detailed accounts of intimate life—and particularly of the intimate lives of women—are excruciatingly rare, present
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