The Ottomans - Marc David Baer, Hodder & Stoughton
The Ottomans - Marc David Baer, Hodder & Stoughton The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. In their breadth and versatility, the…
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The Ottomans - Marc David Baer, Hodder & Stoughton
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. 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. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart.
Radically retelling their remarkable story, The Ottomans is a magisterial portrait of a dynastic power, and the first to truly capture its cross-fertilisation between East and West. Upending Western concepts of the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, the Reformation, this account challenges our understandings of sexuality, orientalism and genocide.