TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goodwin,Jason
TI  - Lords of the horizons: a history of the Ottoman Empire 
SN  - 0805040811 :
AV  - DR486 .G66 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - H. Holt
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
ER  -