Welcome to the Greece and Turkey research guide!

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• Note that the Travel Destinations research guide is linked as the last tab.

You can borrow the books below. Need more? See this page: Finding Books. Use the subject headings below for more. 

Istanbul: a cultural history - Clark, Peter

Call Number: DR726 .C55 2012

ISBN: 1566568455

The early modern Ottomans: remapping the Empire

Call Number: DR 501 .E27 2007

ISBN: 0521817641

Turkey from empire to revolutionary republic : the emergence of the Turkish nation from 1789 to the present

Call Number: DR 559 .A39 2007

ISBN: 0814707211

Understanding Greek sculpture: ancient meanings, modern readings

Call Number: NB 90 .S66 1996

ISBN: 0500237107

Aladdin’s lamp: how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world

Call Number: Q 127.G7 F74 2009

ISBN: 030726534X

Greece, Athens and the Mainland

Call Number: DF 716 .G758 2009

ISBN: 140531186X

 

You may borrow these travel guidebooks. To see if they're already out, search the book catalog above with "Greece guidebooks" or "Turkey guidebooks.":

• Turkey (Insight guides) DR 416 .I57 2008
• Athens and the Peloponnese DF916.5 .A75 2006 (Knopf Guide)
• Greece    DF895 .B37 2005 (Blue Guide)
• Greece DF716 .G74 2004 (Lonely Planet)
• Greek Islands      DF895 .G74 2004 (Lonely Planet)
• Crete DF901.C8 C35 2003 (Blue Guide)
• Turkey     DR429.4 .Y35 2003 (Lonely Planet)
• Turkey     DR416 .M33 2001 (Blue Guide)

Search for books with ACC Library's online catalog; you may use the link above. Subject headings and keywords like these work well to find books in the ACC Library:

Astrology History
Greece Civilization
Classical antiquities
Greece History
Science, Greece
Science, Islamic countries
Science, Ancient
Islam and science
Sex customs Greece
Greece history
Military history, Ancient
Military history, Medieval
Military art and science History
Political science Greece
Music and Greece

Turkey
Middle East
European Union
Ottoman Balkan peninsula
Religion and politics -- Middle East
Middle East -- Politics and government
Middle East -- Economic conditions
Armenians
Armenian massacres, 1915-1923, Turkey.
Food history
Mediterranean Region -- History

Find these books on the main floor of the library. They cannot be borrowed, but are always in the library to use. Many more are available; ask a reference librarian for assistance.

Wilson, Nigel Guy.  Encyclopedia of ancient Greece         
Ref. DF16 .E52 2006

The Middle East.      Ref. DS63.1 .M484 2007

Rudolph, Joseph R. Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts
Ref. GN496 .E56 2003

Wallenfels, Ronald. The Ancient Near East: an encyclopedia for students
Ref. DS57 .A67 2000

Sela, Avraham.   Political encyclopedia of the Middle East
Ref. DS62.8 .P64 1999

Simon, Reeva S. Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East
Ref. DS43 .E53 1996

Also see ACC Library research guides on other subjects: Anthropology, Art, Music, more. Rememeber to search the Book Catalog for lots more books!

Here’s a list of the most recent circulating books about Greece and Turkey in the ACC Library. You’ll notice that many about Greece are in the DF call number – DF is the Library of Congress call number for Greece! Books about Turkey and the Middle East are in the DS call number.

You may borrow these for four weeks with your student ID or a photo ID.

The library has more than 130 books about Greece and more than 100 books asbout Turkey. Search the online catalog above more more on your subject.

Circulating Books about Greece:

• Freely, John.  Aladdin’s lamp: how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world        Q127.G7 F74 2009
• Jones, Nicholas F.  Politics and society in ancient Greece                JC73 .J66 2008
• Shapiro, H. A.     Cambridge companion to archaic Greece              DF77 .C317 2007
• Alcock, Susan E.  Classical archaeology    DE86 .C58 2007
• Marincola, John.  A companion to Greek and Roman historiography         DE8 .C65 2007
• Valavanēs, Panos.           Great moments in Greek archaeology                    DF77 .G74 2007
• Green, Peter,    The Hellenistic age : a short history          DE86 .G74 2007
• Hall, Jonathan M.   A history of the archaic Greek world, ca. 1200-479 BCE   DF221.2 .H35 2007
• Herodotus.  The landmark Herodotus : the histories        2007       D58 .H4713 2007
• Connelly, Joan Breton, Portrait of a priestess : women and ritual in ancient Greece         BL795.W65 C66 2007
• Snodgrass, Anthony M.     Archaeology and the emergence of Greece                    2006       DF78 .S64 2006
• Evans, J. A. S. The beginnings of history : Herodotus and the Persian Wars            D56.52.H45 E89 2006
• Cantor, Norman F.  Alexander the Great :  journey to the end of the earth           2005       DF234 .C26 2005
• Marker, Sherry.  Greece.              DF895 .B37 2005
• Pomeroy, Sarah B.  A brief history of ancient Greece : politics, society, and culture           DF214 .B74 2004

 Circulating Books about Turkey:

• Haugen, David M. The Middle East     DS63.2.U5 M425 2009
• Wright, Robin B., Dreams and shadows: the future of the Middle East DS44 .W87 2008
• Sorenson, David S., An introduction to the modern Middle East : history, religion, political economy, politics    DS44 .S67 2008
• Smith, Dan, The state of the Middle East : an atlas of conflict and resolution     DS631 .S64 2008
• Oren, Michael B., Power, faith, and fantasy : America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present  DS63.2.U5 O54 2007

 Many more are in the Circulating Collection. Ask a librarian for assistance.

These databases link to electronic books: you can read a whole book on your screen! The first is a paid service; just log on with your SUNY Adirondack username/password if accessing from off-campus. Some offer podcasts and audiobooks.