Jane Hathaway

Nancy Kulp

Nancy Jane Kulp (August 28, 1921 February 3, 1991) was an American character actress best known as Miss Jane Hathaway on the popular CBS television...

Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention: Mutiny in Comparative Perspective

Mutiny and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire

The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis

The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt : The Rise of the Qazdaglis

A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen

A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen

Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention: Mutiny in Comparative Perspective

This is the first book to address the topic of mutiny in and of itself, or to present mutiny in a comparative framework. The fourteen contributors, a mixture of military, social, and political historians, examine instances of mutiny that occurred from ancient to modern times and on nearly every cont...

The Arab Lands in the Ottoman Era

This second volume in the series Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History brings together eleven original studies in the history of the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. One of world history s largest, longest-lived, and most influential empires, the Ottoman Empire controlled the Balkans, Anato...

The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

In a lucidly argued revisionist study of military society in Ottoman Egypt, Jane Hathaway contends that the basic framework within which this elite operated was the household, a conglomerate of patron-client ties. Using Turkish and Arabic archival sources, the author focuses on the Qazdagli househol...

Pride, Prejudice and Cheese Grits (Jane Austen Takes the South)

This hilarious Southern retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice tells the story of two hard-headed Civil war historians who find that first impressions can be deceiving.Shelby Roswell, a Civil War historian and professor, is on the fast track to tenure—that is, until her new book is roasted b...

Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread: A Passion Denied but Never Forgotten (Jane Austen Takes the South)

A lively Southern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, featuring Lucy Crawford, who is thrown back into the path of her first love while on a quest to save her beloved family home.Lucy Crawford is part of a wealthy, well-respected Southern family with a long local history. But since Lucy’s mother ...

Emma, Mr. Knightley and Chili-Slaw Dogs

From the bestselling author of Pride, Prejudice, and Cheese Grits comes a new and comical contemporary take on the perennial Jane Austen classic, Emma.Caroline Ashley is a journalist on the rise at The Washington Post until the sudden death of her father brings her back to Thorny Hollow to care for ...

The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule: 1516-1800

In this seminal study, Jane Hathaway presents a wide-ranging reassessment of the effects of Ottoman rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq and Yemen - the first of its kind in over forty years. Challenging outmoded perceptions of this period as a demoralizing prelude to the rise of Ar...

El-Hajj Beshir Agha (Makers of the Muslim World)

An exploration of the legacy of El-Hajj Beshir, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem in the early 18th century, and a highly influential proponent of the Hanafi legal rite.