The Ottomans / Andrew Wheatcroft
1993, 1st edition. London : Viking. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #428228
ISBN: 0670844128
Physical description; xxix, 322 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index. Contents; World's last day : the fall of the Byzantine empire -- At the gate of bliss : the shaping of Ottoman power -- Strangled with a silken cord : the constraints of Ottomanism -- Auspicious event : the extirpation of the Jannissaries -- Stamboul, the city : western images of the Ottomans -- Dreams from the rose pavilion : the meandering path of reform -- Lustful Turk -- Terrible Turk. Subjects; 1288-1918. history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other. Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. Empire ottoman Histoire. Turkey.
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