"Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time
For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube an
Rather than presenting a unitary history of the Ottoman Empire (1288-1918), Heywood collects 16 of his previously published studies with new material added to three of them on aspects of the Ottoman p
Despite the fact that its capital city and over one third of its territory was within the continent of Europe, the Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded as a place apart, inextricably divided from the West by differences of culture and religion. A perception of its militarism, its barbarism, its tyranny, the sexual appetites of its rulers and its pervasive exoticism has led historians to measure the Ottoman world against a western standard and find it lacking. In recent decades, a dynamic and convincing scholarship has emerged that seeks to comprehend and, in the process, to de-exoticize this enduring realm. Dan Goffman provides a thorough introduction to the history and institutions of the Ottoman Empire from this new standpoint, and presents a claim for its inclusion in Europe. His lucid and engaging book - an important addition to New Approaches to European History - will be essential reading for undergraduates.
Goffman (history, Ball State U.) provides an introduction to the history and institutions of the Ottoman Empire and its dealings with the rest of Europe. Following an introductory overview, eight chap
Fragments of Culture explores the evolving modern daily life of Turkey. Through analyses of language, folklore, film, satirical humor, the symbolism of Islamic political mobilization, and the shifting
Written by renowned scholar Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey has established itself as the preferred one-volume history of modern Turkey. It covers the emergence of Turkey over two centur
Sultan Mehmed II, arguably the founder of the Ottoman Empire, appointed a non-Muslim Mahmud Pasha Angelovi'c to the second most important position of Ottoman rule in 1456. This political and military
As an introduction for readers with little or no previous knowledge about modern Turkey, Turkish economists and political scientists trace events and trends of the past three decades. The beginnings o
Here, historian Justin McCarthy tells the story of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and how this changed the lives of Slavs, Turks, Greeks, Arabs, and Armenians. The history has striking parallels,
This book will completely transform the standard interpretation of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, a watershed event in the late Ottoman Empire and a key to the emergence of the modern nation-state
This is the first time the continuity of Ottoman culture in contemporary Turkey is discussed by a group of well-known scholars of Ottoman-Turkish history and society. This is done through a series of
Now retired (The American U.), in the early 1960s Mardin set out to fill in some of the processes of the 19th-century reform movement in Turkey that he found missing from the work of Turkish historian
Archaeologists and social scientists, all but one from the US, apply approaches and techniques developed to study the European influence and settlement in North America to the Ottoman Empire, which la
Kramer (research analyst, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Germany) discusses internal difficulties in Turkey such as poor relations with the Kurds, the advance of politicized Islam, and an
