The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer (English) Hardcover

Description: The Ottomans by Marc David Baer This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as theIslamic, Asianantithesis of theChristian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europes heart.Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans remarkable rise from afrontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empires demise after the First World War. The Ottomansvividly reveals the dynastys full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Marc David Baeris professor ofinternational history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of five books, includingHonored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe, which won the Albert Hourani Prize. He lives inLondon. Review "A wildly ambitious and entertainingly lurid history."--Times"Baer offers a fuller, fresher view of the dynasty that ruled an empire for 500 years and helped shape the West as much as the Habsburgs or Romanovs... A major achievement. [Baer] is a writer in full command of his subject."--Spectator"Highly readable... Baers fine book gives a panoramic and thought-provoking account of over half a millennium of Ottoman and -- it now goes without saying -- European history."--Guardian"This forceful history takes aim at the notion that the Ottomans represent the antithesis of Western Europe, asking readers to conceptualise a Europe that is not merely Christian."--New Yorker"Mr. Baer organizes his material according to contemporary concerns...thereby eking out surprisingly fresh insights from this hitherto well-plowed terrain... Highly readable, original and thorough."--Wall Street Journal"Magnificent... [An] important and hugely readable book -- a model of well-written, accessible scholarship."--Financial Times"A winning portrait of seven centuries of empire, teeming with life and colour, human interest and oddity, cruelty and oppression mixed with pleasure, benevolence and great artistic beauty."--Sunday Times"Sweeping... Baers elegantly written narrative is full of bloody state building...along with intriguing, counterintuitive takes on Ottoman culture."--Publishers Weekly"A superb, gripping, and refreshing new history--finely written and filled with fascinating characters and analysis--that places the dynasty where it belongs: at the center of European history."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs"Theres no study more masterful than Baers on the lengthy rule of the Ottoman Empire...Baer is especially skilled at presenting extensive information in an engaging and accessible way."--Library Journal"A book as sweeping, colorful, and rich in extraordinary characters as the empire which it describes."--Tom Holland, author of Dominion"A compellingly readable account of one of the great world empires from its origins in thirteenth century to modern times. Drawing on contemporary Turkish and European sources, Marc David Baer situates the Ottomans squarely at the overlap of European and Middle Eastern history. Blending the sacred and the profane, the social and the political, the sublime and the absurd, Baer brings his subject to life in rich vignettes. An outstanding book."--Eugene Rogan, author of The Fall of the Ottomans"Marc David Baers colorful, readable book is informed by all the newest research on his massive subject. In showing how an epic of universal empire, conquest and toleration turned into the drama of nationalism, crisis, and genocide, he gives us not only an expansive history of the Ottomans, but an expanded history of Europe."--James McDougall, University of Oxford"Marc David Baers The Ottomans is a scintillating and brilliantly panoramic account of the history of the Ottoman empire, from its genesis to its dissolution. Baer provides a clear and engaging account of the dynastic and high politics of the empire, whilst also surveying the Ottoman worlds social, cultural, intellectual and economic development. What emerges is an Ottoman Empire that was a direct product of and an active participant in both European and global history. It challenges and transforms how we think of East and West, Enlightenment, and modernity, and directly confronts the horrors as well as the achievements of Ottoman rule." --Peter Sarris, University of Cambridge Review Quote "Marc David Baers The Ottomans is a scintillating and brilliantly panoramic account of the history of the Ottoman empire, from its genesis to its dissolution. Baer provides a clear and engaging account of the dynastic and high politics of the empire, whilst also surveying the Ottoman worlds social, cultural, intellectual and economic development. What emerges is an Ottoman Empire that was a direct product of and an active participant in both European and global history. It challenges and transforms how we think of East and West, Enlightenment, and modernity, and directly confronts the horrors as well as the achievements of Ottoman rule." -- Peter Sarris, University of Cambridge Details ISBN1541673808 Author Marc David Baer Short Title The Ottomans Publisher Basic Books Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1541673808 ISBN-13 9781541673809 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2021-10-05 Subtitle Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs Imprint Basic Books Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-10-05 NZ Release Date 2021-10-05 US Release Date 2021-10-05 UK Release Date 2021-10-05 Pages 560 DEWEY 956.0150922 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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