The Ottomans: Dissolving Images

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The Ottomans were a dominant world power for four and a half centuries, but how well do we know of their successes in the West? Andrew Wheatcroft teases out those qualities which were uniquely Ottoman. Not Turkish, not Middle Eastern, nor even a shadowy echo of the west. For the Ottomans, born warriors from the steppes of Central Asia, became a unique urban culture, the successors of Rome in a political sense but quite unlike any culture before or since. Yet it is wrong to talk of the Otto...Vis mer