History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey Empire of the Gazis - The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808

Name: History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey Empire of the Gazis - The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808
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ISBN: 9780521291637

ISBN-10: 0521291631

ISBN-13: 9780521291637

Edition: 1976

Authors: Stanford J. Shaw

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Empire 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,…

Book details

List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/29/1976
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Stanford J. Shaw is a Professor of Turkish and Judeo-Turkish History at the University of California, Los Angeles and serves as Chair for both the Committee for the B.A. in Near Eastern History and the Program for the Study of Ottoman and Turkish Jewry. He is the author of numerous books, including The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and The Turkish Republic (also published by NYU Press).



Preface


Abbreviations


Note on pronunciation


Map of the growth of the Ottoman Empire to 1683



Rise of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1566



The Turks in history



The first Ottoman Empire, 1280-1413



Restoration of the Ottoman Empire, 1413-1451



The apogee of Ottoman power, 1451-1566



The dynamics of Ottoman society and administration



Decentralization and Traditional Reform in Response to Challenge



Decentralization and traditional reform, 1566-1683



New challenges and responses, 1683-1808



Ottoman society, administration, and culture in the age of decentralization and traditionalistic reform, 1566-1808


Map of the decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1683-1924


Bibliography: Ottoman history to 1808


Index