A History of the Ottoman Empire

A History of the Ottoman Empire

 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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ISBN13:9780521727303
ISBN10:0521727308
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:412 pages
Size:247x175x25 mm
Weight:820 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 63 b/w illus. 9 maps
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This illustrated textbook covers the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis to its dissolution.

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Covering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dissolution after the Great War in Europe, this textbook takes a holistic approach, considering the Ottoman worldview - what it was, how it came together, and how it fell apart. Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature, emphasizing spirituality, the awareness of space and time, and emotions, migration, violence, disease, and disaster. Following how people spent their time, their attitudes towards authority, how they made their money, and their sense of humor and sense of beauty, this illustrated textbook is an essential resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate, courses on the history of the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, Islamic history, and the history of Eastern Europe. The book includes over eighty illustrations, maps and textboxes.

'At last - a survey of Ottoman history that covers the entire 600-plus years of the empire's history, written by a true expert with command of both primary and secondary sources, yet designed as an accessible textbook. In lucid, often lively, prose, Douglas Howard treats not only the Ottoman Empire's political history but social, economic, religious, and intellectual developments, as well, incorporating imperial capital and provinces, elites and commoners, dispassionate analysis and telling anecdotes. The maps, illustrations, lists of rulers and 'box' features make this book particularly user-friendly. This is the Ottoman history textbook many of us have been waiting for.' Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University
Table of Contents:
List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Ottoman genesis, 1300
-97; 2. A blessed dynasty, 1397
-1494; 3. A world view, 1494
-1591; 4. Ambiguities and certainties, 1591
-1688; 5. The global and the local, 1688
-1785; 6. Ottomans in other words, 1785
-1882; 7. Dissolution, 1882
-1924; Bibliography; Index.