History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808 is the first book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It describes how the Ottoman Turks, a small band of nomadic soldiers, managed to expand their dominions from a small principality in northwestern Anatolia on the borders of the Byzantine Empire into one of the great empires of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe and Asia, extending from northern Hungary to southern Arabia and from the Crimea across North Africa almost to the Atlantic Ocean. The volume sweeps away the accumulated prejudices of centuries and describes the empire of the sultans as a living, changing society, dominated by the small multinational Ottoman ruling class led by the sultan, but with a scope of government so narrow that the subjects, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, were left to carry on their own lives, religions, and traditions with little outside interference. |
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Contents
The First Ottoman Empire 12801413 | 12 |
Restoration of the Ottoman Empire 14131451 | 41 |
The Apogee of Ottoman Power 14511566 | 55 |
The Dynamics of Ottoman Society and Administration | 112 |
Part Two Decentralization and Traditional Reform in Response | 169 |
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| Title | History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808 ACLS Humanities E-Book Cambridge books online Volume 1 of History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Stanford Jay Shaw |
| Authors | Stanford J. Shaw, Ezel Kural Shaw |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1976 |
| ISBN | 0521291631, 9780521291637 |
| Length | 368 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / General History / Middle East / General History / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire |
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