Tag: Ottomans

Free Download Transforming Empire: The Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Essays in Honor of Linda Darling
by Serpil Atamaz
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004704345 | 345 Pages | PDF | 3.3 MB

Free Download Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi, "Urban Governance Under the Ottomans: Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 041572547X, 1138299383 | EPUB | pages: 250 | 0.9 mb
Urban Governance Under the Ottomans focuses on one of the most pressing topics in this field, namely the question why cities formerly known for their multiethnic and multi- religious composition became increasingly marked by conflict in the 19th century.

Free Download Christine M. Philliou, "Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution"
English | ISBN: 0520266358 | 2010 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 1216 KB
This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories―ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East. Christine Philliou brilliantly shines a new light on imperial crisis and change in the 1820s and 1830s by unearthing the life of one man. Stephanos Vogorides (1780-1859) was part of a network of Christian elites known phanariots, institutionally excluded from power yet intimately bound up with Ottoman governance. By tracing the contours of the wide-ranging networks―crossing ethnic, religious, and institutional boundaries―in which the phanariots moved, Philliou provides a unique view of Ottoman power and, ultimately, of the Ottoman legacies in the Middle East and Balkans today. What emerges is a wide-angled analysis of governance as a lived experience at a moment in which there was no clear blueprint for power.

Free Download The Ottomans and Christians: The History and Legacy of the Ottomans’ Conflicts with Catholic and Orthodox Nations (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868633096 | 2024 | 9 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Jim Walsh
In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.

Free Download When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire By Yiğit Akın
2018 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1503604993 | PDF | 3 MB
The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war, the empire’s statesmen reached beyond the battlefield to sustain their war effort. They placed unprecedented hardships onto the shoulders of the Ottoman people: mass conscription, a state-controlled economy, widespread food shortages, and ethnic cleansing. By war’s end, few aspects of Ottoman daily life remained untouched.When the War Came Home reveals the catastrophic impact of this global conflict on ordinary Ottomans. Drawing on a wide range of sources-from petitions, diaries, and newspapers to folk songs and religious texts-Yiğit Akın examines how Ottoman men and women experienced war on the home front as government authorities intervened ever more ruthlessly in their lives. The horrors of war brought home, paired with the empire’s growing demands on its people, fundamentally reshaped interactions between Ottoman civilians, the military, and the state writ broadly. Ultimately, Akın argues that even as the empire lost the war on the battlefield, it was the destructiveness of the Ottoman state’s wartime policies on the home front that led to the empire’s disintegration.

Free Download Douglas E. Streusand, "Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals "
English | ISBN: 0813313597 | 2010 | 408 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam’s three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran), and the Mughals (ruling the Indian subcontinent). Author Douglas Streusand explains the origins of the three empires; compares the ideological, institutional, military, and economic contributors to their success; and analyzes the causes of their rise, expansion, and ultimate transformation and decline. Streusand depicts the three empires as a part of an integrated international system extending from the Atlantic to the Straits of Malacca, emphasizing both the connections and the conflicts within that system. He presents the empires as complex polities in which Islam is one political and cultural component among many. The treatment of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires incorporates contemporary scholarship, dispels common misconceptions, and provides an excellent platform for further study.