Publication

1989 - A. Caratzas, New Rochelle, N. Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

64,250 words, Guess

Page Count

257 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC914.96/1/031
  • LCCDR486 .I5 1989

Description

A preeminent scholar of Turkish history vividly portrays 300 years of this distinctively Eastern culture as it grew from a military principality to the world's most powerful Islamic state. He paints a striking picture of the prominence of religion and warfare in everyday life, as well as the traditions of statecraft, administration, social values, financial, and land policies. "...masterly...Halil Inalcik is one of the foremost living students of Ottoman history...Read this book..."--Times Literary Supplement.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Late Byzantine and Ottoman studies -- 1.

Other Editions

  • The Ottoman Empire: the classical age, 1300-1600A. Caratzas1989-01-01

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