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Lords of the horizons : a history of the Ottoman Empire / Jason Goodwin.
Publication details: New York : H. Holt, 1999.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xv, 351 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cmISBN:- 0805040811 :
- DR486 .G66 1999
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Summary: The early warriors flung a net as fine as filigree, as strong as iron, across a vast area-yet they were never a separate nation. This is a book about a people who do not exist, whose name does not describe a place, whose language nobody speaks. Lords of the Horizons irresistibly evokes the strange, dynamic empire created from the 'thirty-six nations' of the Balkans and the Black Sea and the Middle East, its faith Islam, its ceremony Byzantine, its dignity Persian, its wealth Egyptian, its letters Arabic.
Map of the Ottoman Empire -- Prologue -- Curves and Arabesques -- Origins -- The Balkans -- Thunderbolt -- The Siege -- The Centre -- The Palace -- War -- Suleyman the Magnificent -- Order -- Cities -- The Sea -- Rhythms -- The Turkish Time -- The Turkish Time -- Stalemate -- The Cage -- The Spiral -- The Empire -- Hoards -- Hoards -- Koprulu and Vienna -- Austria and Russia -- Ayan -- Shamming -- Borderlands -- The Auspicious Event -- The Bankrupt -- Epilogue -- Ottoman Sultans -- An Ottoman Chronology.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | DR 486 .G66 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 610352 |
"A John Macrae book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-[342]) and index.
Map of the Ottoman Empire -- Prologue -- Curves and Arabesques -- Origins -- The Balkans -- Thunderbolt -- The Siege -- The Centre -- The Palace -- War -- Suleyman the Magnificent -- Order -- Cities -- The Sea -- Rhythms -- The Turkish Time -- The Turkish Time -- Stalemate -- The Cage -- The Spiral -- The Empire -- Hoards -- Hoards -- Koprulu and Vienna -- Austria and Russia -- Ayan -- Shamming -- Borderlands -- The Auspicious Event -- The Bankrupt -- Epilogue -- Ottoman Sultans -- An Ottoman Chronology.
The early warriors flung a net as fine as filigree, as strong as iron, across a vast area-yet they were never a separate nation. This is a book about a people who do not exist, whose name does not describe a place, whose language nobody speaks. Lords of the Horizons irresistibly evokes the strange, dynamic empire created from the 'thirty-six nations' of the Balkans and the Black Sea and the Middle East, its faith Islam, its ceremony Byzantine, its dignity Persian, its wealth Egyptian, its letters Arabic.
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