The Ottoman Empire
03 Oct 1994 12:02Its history and culture. Influence on Europe. Could it really have been worse than what it has been replaced by, i.e., the Middle East and the Balkans today?
Cf. Bosnia.
See also: Early Modern Europe
- To read:
- Gabor Agoston, Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire
- Engin Akaril, The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861--1920
- Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman (eds.), The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire
- Walter G. Andrews and Memhmet Kalpakli, The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society
- Cemil Aydin, The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
- Karen Barkey, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective
- Mehmet Sinan Birdal, The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans: From Global Imperial Power to Absolutist States
- Giancarlo Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration
- Andre Clot, Suleiman the Magnificent
- Dankoff, The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman: Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588--1662) As Portrayed in Evliya Celebi's Book of Travels
- Edhem Eldem et al., The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul
- Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire
- Caroline Finkel, Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300--1923
- Clive Foss, The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire
- David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
- Daniel Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe
- M. Sukru Hanioglu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
- Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Science, Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire
- Cemal Kafadar, Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State [Review by Danny Yee]
- Kayali, Hasan, Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908--1918
- Murat Iyigun, War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God: The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution
- Fuad M. Koprulu, The Origins of the Ottoman Empire
- Kinross, Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire
- Noel Malcolm, Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450--1750 [via David Auerbach]
- Alan Mikhail, God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern World
- Gülru Necipoglu
- The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire
- Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- Leslie Peirce, Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab
- Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play
- S. J. Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
- Wendy M. K. Shaw, Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire
- Sam White, The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
