The Ottomans : Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
Baer, Marc David, 1970-2021
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The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. In their breadth and versatility, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans' remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage; how they used both religious toleration and conversion to integrate conquered peoples; and how, in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the dynasty's demise after the First World War.
Main title:
The Ottomans : Khans, Caesars and Caliphs / Marc David Baer.
Author:
Baer, Marc David, 1970-, author
Imprint:
London : Basic Books, 2021.
Collation:
viii, 543 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781473695702 (hbk)
Dewey class:
956.101956.1015
LC class:
DR486
Local class:
956.101
Language:
English
BRN:
2921403