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Lords of the horizons : a history of the Ottoman Empire / Jason Goodwin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodwin, Jason, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 351 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Picador edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Picador, 2003.
- Summary:
- A history of the Ottoman Turks, founders of an empire lasting 600 years and stretching from the Persian Gulf to Hungary, to Algeria. The author describes the harems, the artistic and technological achievements--the cannon was first used by them in the siege of Constantinople--and the religious tolerance to which he attributes the empire's longevity.
- Notes:
- "A John Macrae book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-[342]) and index.
- Originally published: Great Britain : Chatto & Windus, 1998.
- ISBN:
- 0312420668
- 9780312420666
- OCLC:
- 51588378
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