Ottomans - Baer, Marc David

Baer, Marc David | 2021 | Zachte kaft | Engels
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Beschrijving

A major new history of the six-hundred-year dynasty that connected East to West as never before. '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 centre of European history' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and Jerusalem 'A book as sweeping, colorful, and rich in extraordinary characters as the empire which it describes' - Tom Holland 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. Upending Western concepts of the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, the Reformation, this account challenges our understandings of sexuality, orientalism and genocide. 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.
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Beschrijving

A major new history of the six-hundred-year dynasty that connected East to West as never before. '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 centre of European history' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and Jerusalem 'A book as sweeping, colorful, and rich in extraordinary characters as the empire which it describes' - Tom Holland 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. Upending Western concepts of the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, the Reformation, this account challenges our understandings of sexuality, orientalism and genocide. 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.

Specificaties

Door (auteur) Baer, Marc David
Uitgeverij Veltman Distributie Import Books
Genre Geschiedenis algemeen
Uitgave Zachte kaft
Aantal pagina's 560
Verschenen op 14-10-2021
ISBN / EAN 9781473695719
Taal Engels
Gewicht 731 g
Hoogte 235 mm
Breedte 155 mm
Dikte 44 mm