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History Rhymes? Late Ottoman Millets and Post-Ottoman Minorities in the Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2018

Heather J. Sharkey
Heather J. Sharkey*
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Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; e-mail: hsharkey@sas.upenn.edu
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , November 2018 , pp. 760 - 764
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