FURTHER READING

Ashenburg, Katherine. The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die. North Point Press. 2004.

Brox, Jane. Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light. Mariner Books. 2011.

Croutier, Alev Lytle. Harem: The World Behind the Veil. Abbeville Press. 1991.

Faroqhi, Suraiya. Subjects of the Sultan. I.B. Tauris. 2005.

Freely, John, and Hilary Sumner-Boyd. Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City. Tauris Parke Paperbacks. 2010.

Goodwin, Godfrey. The Private World of Ottoman Women. Saqi Books. 2007.

Greenfield, Amy Butler. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire. Harper Perennial. 2006.

Hanimefendi, Leyla. The Imperial Harem of the Sultans: Daily Life at the Çirağan Palace During the 19th Century: Memoirs of Leyla Hanimefendi. Peva Publication. 1994.

Hutter Epstein, Randi, M.D. Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank. W.W. Norton Company. 2010.

Inalcik, Halil, and Donald Quataert, eds. An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1914. Cambridge University Press. 1995.

Kia, Mehrdad, Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire. Greenwood Press. 2011.

Lewis, Bernard A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History. Modern Library. 2001.

Peirce, Leslie P. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. 1993.

Polk, William R. Neighbors and Strangers. University of Chicago Press. 1997.

Rozen, Minna. A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul. The Formative Years 1453–1566. Brill Academic Publishers. 2002.

Sancar, Asli. Ottoman Women: Myth and Reality. Tughra Books. 2007.

Wertz, Richard W., and Dorothy C. Wertz. Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America. Yale University Press. 1989.