‘History series’ Archives
Turkish and Other Baths: A Guide to Good Health and Longevity
William Gordon Stables wrote in excess of 130 books. While the majority of this large output was boys' adventure fiction, often with a nautical or historical setting, he also wrote books on health, fitness - of which this text is a prime example - and medical subjects, as well as the keeping of cats and dogs. Stables’ classic text is [...]
The Turkish Jester by Nasreddin Hoca
The Nasreddin stories are known throughout the Middle East and have touched cultures around the world. Superficially, most of the Nasreddin stories may be told as jokes or humorous anecdotes. They are told and retold endlessly in the teahouses and caravanserais of Asia and can be heard in homes and on the radio. George Borrow’s classic [...]
The Evolution of English Lexicography by James A.H. Murray
James Augustus Henry Murray, the Scottish lexicographer and philologist, was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 until his death. Here, in its original form as part of TUP’s history series, is his 1900 lecture on the the evolution of English lexicography. 'For, the English Dictionary, like the English Constitution, [...]
Lectures on Language, as Particularly Connected with English Grammar by Wm. S. Balch
Wiliam. S. Balch’s classic collection of lectures on English grammar is presented here in its original form as part of TUP’s history series. 'There is no subject so deeply interesting and important to rational beings as the knowledge of language, or one which presents a more direct and powerful claim upon all classes in the community; for [...]
Told in the Coffee House by Cyrus Adler and Allan Ramsay
Cyrus Adler’s classic antiquarian collection of tales from the Istanbul of the 1890s is presented here in its original form as part of TUP’s history series. 'In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses.' Thus began Adler’s quest to chronicle the tales [...]
