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Charles King, author of Gods of the Upper Air, How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century.
Charles King. Charles King is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Gods of the Upper Air, which received the Francis Parkman Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times History Prize, and the British Academy’s Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
Jul 28, 2019 · Articles & Commentary from Charles King, author and Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Charles King, Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University and author of Midnight at the Pera Palace, The Birth of Modern Istanbul.
Published books from Charles King, author and Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
In Every Valley, award-winning historian Charles King unearths the astonishing backstory to a beloved classic and its place as one of the Enlightenment’s hidden guides to thinking our way toward hope.
The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing east European borderland, The Moldovans illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured.
Italian merchants, Greek freedom fighters, and Turkish seamen; a Russian empress and her favorite soldier-bureaucrats; Jewish tavern keepers, traders, and journalists—these and many others seeking fortune and adventure rubbed shoulders in Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea.
The Ghost of Freedom recounts how tsars, highlanders, revolutionaries, and adventurers contributed to the fascinating history of this borderland, from the origins of modern disputes to debates over oil from the Caspian Sea and its impact on world markets.
Jul 18, 2019 · Author Charles King answers questions about his book Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams, published by W. W. Norton in 2011.
