02958cam a2200289 i 4500 509663629 TxAuBib 20211103120000.0 210201s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021004793 9781541673809 HRD 35.00 1541673808 HRD 35.00 TxAuBib rda Baer, Marc David, 1970- The Ottomans [BOOK] : khans, caesars, and caliphs / Marc David Baer. First Edition. New York : Basic Books, 2021. viii, 543 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: the white castle -- The beginning: Gazi Osman and Orhan -- The sultan and his converted slaves: Murad I -- Resurrecting the dynasty: Bayezid I, Mehmed I, and Murad II -- Conquering the second Rome: Mehmed II -- A Renaissance prince: Mehmed II -- A pious leader faces enemies at home and abroad: Bayezid II -- Magnificence: from Selim I to the first Ottoman caliph, Suleiman I -- Sultanic saviours -- The Ottoman age of discovery -- No way like the 'Ottoman way' -- Harem means home -- Bearded men and beardless youths -- Being Ottoman, being Roman: from Murad III to Osman II -- Return of the Gazi: Mehmed IV -- A Jewish messiah in the Ottoman palace -- The second siege of Vienna and the sweet waters of Europe: from Mehmed IV to Ahmed III -- Reform: breaking the cycle of rebellion from Selim III to Abd©ơlhamid II -- Looking within: the Ottoman Orient -- Saving the dynasty from itself: young Turks -- The genocide of the Armenians and the first world war: Talat Pasha -- The end: Gazi Mustafa Kemal -- Conclusion: the Ottoman past endures. 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. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier 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 empire’s demise after the First World War. The Ottomans vividly reveals the dynasty’s full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world. Provided by publisher. 20211103. Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.