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Author: Metin Kunt
Publisher: Cambridge History of Turkey
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107029507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive four-volume set relating the history of Turkey from Byzantium up to and including modern-day Turkey.
Author: Suraiya N. Faroqhi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 1316175545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 2 of The Cambridge History of Turkey examines the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 to the accession of Ahmed I in 1603. During this period, the Ottoman Empire moved into a new phase of expansion, emerging in the sixteenth century as a dominant political player on the world scene. With territory stretching around the Mediterranean from the Adriatic Sea to Morocco, and from the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, the Ottomans reached the apogee of their military might in a period seen by many later Ottomans, and historians, as a golden age in which the state was strong, the sultan's might unquestionable, and intellectual life and the arts flourishing. In this volume, leading scholars assess the considerable expansion of Ottoman power and effervescence of the Ottoman intellectual and cultural world. They also investigate the challenges that faced the Ottoman state, particularly in the later period, as the empire experienced economic crises, revolts and drawn-out wars.
Author: Hamit Bozarslan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-22
Total Pages: 1027
ISBN-13: 1108583016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
Author: Douglas A. Howard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-01-09
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 0521898676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illustrated textbook covers the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis to its dissolution.
Author: Donald Quataert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-08-11
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521839105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond edition of an authoritative text on the Ottoman Empire.
Author: Kate Fleet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0521642213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA readable and authoritative account of the economic development of the early Ottoman state.
Author: Sevket Pamuk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-03-09
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521441971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn important book on the monetary history of the Ottoman empire by a leading economic historian.
Author: Edhem Eldem
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-11-11
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521643047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies of early-modern Islamic cities have stressed the atypical or the idiosyncratic. This bias derives largely from orientalist presumptions that they were in some way substandard or deviant. The first purpose of this volume is to normalize Ottoman cities, to demonstrate how, on the one hand, they resembled cities generally and how, on the other, their specific histories individualized them. The second purpose is to challenge the previous literature and to negotiate an agenda for future study. By considering the narrative histories of Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul, the book offers a departure from the piecemeal methods of previous studies, emphasizing their importance during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and highlighting their essentially Ottoman character. While the essays provide an overall view, each can be approached separately. Their exploration of the sources and the agendas of those who have conditioned scholarly understanding of these cities will make them essential student reading.
Author: Stanford Jay Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521291637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmpire 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.
Author: Norman Stone
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0500771553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Arresting … Stone’s Turkey breaks the popular mould and introduces its readers to a place beyond their presumptions" —The Sunday Times In Turkey: A Short History the celebrated historian Norman Stone deftly conducts the reader through the fascinating and complex story of Turkey’s past, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to the modern republic applying for EU membership in the twenty-first. It is an account of epic proportions, featuring rapacious leaders such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, the glories of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, and Kemal Atatürk, the reforming genius and founder of modern Turkey. For six hundred years Turkey was at the heart of the Ottoman Empire, a superpower that brought Islam to the gates of Vienna and stretched to North Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the river Volga. Stone examines the reasons for the astonishing rise and the long decline of this world empire and how for its last hundred years it became the center of the Eastern Question, as the Great Powers argued over a regime in its death throes. Then, as now, the position of Turkey—a country balanced between two continents—provoked passionate debate. Stone concludes the book with a trenchant examination of the Turkish republic created in the aftermath of the First World War, where East and West, religion and secularism, and tradition and modernization are vibrant and sometimes conflicting elements of national identity.
