The Ottomans

The Ottomans Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

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Publisher's Synopsis

This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
 

The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans' remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire's demise after the First World War.  
 
The Ottomans
 vividly reveals the dynasty's full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world. 

Book information

ISBN: 9781541673809
Publisher: Basic Books
Imprint: Basic Books
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 956.0150922
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: cm
Weight: 826g
Height: 259mm
Width: 170mm
Spine width: 51mm