Author(s): Kate Fleet Edited by Suraiya Faroqhi (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 25 April 2013
Language: English
Print length: 728 pages
ISBN-10: 0521620945
ISBN-13: 9780521620949
Book Description
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Turkey examines the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 to the accession of Ahmed I in 1603. During this period, the Ottoman Empire moved into a new phase of expansion, emerging in the sixteenth century as a dominant political player on the world scene. With territory stretching around the Mediterranean from the Adriatic Sea to Morocco, and from the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, the Ottomans reached the apogee of their military might in a period seen by many later Ottomans, and historians, as a golden age in which the state was strong, the sultan’s might unquestionable, and intellectual life and the arts flourishing. In this volume, leading scholars assess the considerable expansion of Ottoman power and effervescence of the Ottoman intellectual and cultural world. They also investigate the challenges that faced the Ottoman state, particularly in the later period, as the empire experienced economic crises, revolts and drawn-out wars.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘With helpful maps, a chronology and glossary, and a superbly detailed bibliography of primary sources and secondary literature, this volume does not disappoint in terms of its overall quality … will be of great use for many years to come.’ Michael Talbot, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Book Description
Volume 2 examines the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 to the accession of Ahmed I in 1603.
About the Author
Suraiya N. Faroqhi is Professor of History at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her publications include The Ottoman Empire: A Short History (2004), Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans (2009) and, as editor, The Cambridge History of Turkey, Volume 3: The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603–1839 (2006).
Kate Fleet is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, Cambridge, and Newton Trust Lecturer in Ottoman History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (2006), A Social History of Istanbul, co-authored with Ebru Boyar (2010) and, as editor, The Cambridge History of Turkey, Volume 1: Byzantium to Turkey, 1071–1453 (2009).
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