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Author | : John Freely |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1590204492 |
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The historian and author of Strolling Through Istanbul presents a detailed portrait of the fifteenth century Ottoman sultan, revealing the man behind the myths. Sultan Mehmet II—known to his countrymen as The Conqueror, and to much of Europe as The Terror of the World—was once Europe's most feared and powerful ruler. Now John Freely, the noted scholar of Turkish history, brings this charismatic hero to life in evocative and authoritative biography. Mehmet was barely twenty-one when he conquered Byzantine Constantinople, which became Istanbul and the capital of his mighty empire. He reigned for thirty years, during which time his armies extended the borders of his empire halfway across Asia Minor and as far into Europe as Hungary and Italy. Three popes called for crusades against him as Christian Europe came face to face with a new Muslim empire. Revered by the Turks and seen as a brutal tyrant by the West, Mehmet was a brilliant military leader as well as a renaissance prince. His court housed Persian and Turkish poets, Arab and Greek astronomers, and Italian scholars and artists. In The Grand Turk, Freely sheds vital new light on this enigmatic ruler.
Author | : Richard Gardner (of Birmingham.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1826 |
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Author | : Robert Ephraim Peabody |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Privateering |
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Author | : Robert Bauman |
Publisher | : The Sovereign Society |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0978921097 |
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Author | : Lewis Falley Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Cattle |
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To which is prefixed a concise history of English and American Short horns, compiled from the best authorities.
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Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Merchant mariners |
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Author | : Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2024-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1477328793 |
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A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa. Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Indian Ocean—“the green sea,” as it was known to Arabic speakers—had increasing contact through commerce, including a slave trade, and underwent cultural exchange and transformation. Using a variety of texts and documents in multiple Asian and European languages, Across the Green Sea looks at the history of the ocean from a variety of shifting viewpoints: western India; the Red Sea and Mecca; the Persian Gulf; East Africa; and Kerala. Sanjay Subrahmanyam sets the scene for this region starting with the withdrawal of China's Ming Dynasty and explores how the western Indian Ocean was transformed by the growth and increasing prominence of the Ottoman Empire and the continued spread of Islam into East Africa. He examines how several cities, including Mecca and the vital Indian port of Surat, grew and changed during these centuries, when various powers interacted until famines and other disturbances upended the region in the seventeenth century. Rather than proposing an artificial model of a dominant center and its dominated peripheries, Across the Green Sea demonstrates the complexity of a truly dynamic and polycentric system through the use of connected histories, a method pioneered by Subrahmanyam himself.
Author | : Jerry Toner |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674076338 |
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A seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way his countrymen would understand? In an age when a European education meant mastering the Classical literature of Greece and Rome, he would naturally turn to touchstones like the Iliad to explain the exotic customs of Ottoman lands. His Turk would have been Homer’s Turk. An account of epic sweep, spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer’s Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on the Classics to help them understand the world once called “the Orient.” Ancient Greek and Roman authors, Jerry Toner shows, served as a conceptual frame of reference over long periods in which trade, religious missions, and imperial interests shaped English encounters with the East. Rivaling the Bible as a widespread, flexible vehicle of Western thought, the Classics provided a ready model for portrayal and understanding of the Oriental Other. Such image-making, Toner argues, persists today in some of the ways the West frames its relationship with the Islamic world and the rising powers of India and China. Discussing examples that range from Jacobean travelogues to Hollywood blockbusters, Homer’s Turk proves that there is no permanent version of either the ancient past or the East in English writing—the two have been continually reinvented alongside each other.
Author | : Rough Guides, Limited |
Publisher | : Rough Guides |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2006-05 |
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Author | : Essex Institute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Essex County (Mass.) |
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