Ebook: The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Writing Style and Transcriptions; Maps; Chronology; Ottoman Sultans; Grand Viziers; Introduction; The Dictionary; Selected Bibliography:; Introduction; Reference Works and Printed Primary Sources; General Works; Emergence of the Ottoman Empire, 1301-1452; Ottoman Classical Period, 1453-1606; The Age of Decentralization, 1607-1773; Ottoman Reform Period, 1774-1922; About the Author.;The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire is an in-depth treatise covering the political, social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one that reached the modern times both in terms of internal structure and world history.