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Justin McCarthy's introductory survey traces the whole history of the Ottoman Turks from their obscure beginnings in central Asia, through the establishment and rise of the Ottoman Empire to its collapse after World War One under the pressures of nationalism. Vividly illustrated with many maps, this introductory overview is designed for non-specialists but is written with great authority and with access to original sources. It fills an important gap for an authoritative but accessible account of the rise of one of the world's great civilizations.
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Prologue: Origins of the Turks, to 1281 | 1 |
| The Turks and Islam | 6 | |
| The Seljuks | 8 | |
| Anatolia | 18 | |
| Mongol rule in Anatolia | 30 | |
| 2 | The First Ottomans, 1281-1446 | 33 |
| Turkish Anatolia | 36 | |
| Interregnum and reconstitution of the Empire | 51 | |
| Those in power | 53 | |
| Mehmet I and Murat II | 58 | |
| 3 | The Ottoman Classical Age, 1446-1566 | 65 |
| The reign of sultan Mehmet II | 67 | |
| The reign of sultan Bayezit II | 78 | |
| The reign of sultan Selim I | 80 | |
| The reign of Suleyman the Magnificent | 87 | |
| The achievement of the first ten sultans | 94 | |
| 4 | The Ottoman State | 101 |
| Rule in the age of Suleyman | 111 | |
| Provincial government | 121 | |
| The military | 123 | |
| Merit and advancement | 126 | |
| The non-Muslims of the Empire | 127 | |
| Economic organization | 132 | |
| 5 | Destabilization, 1566-1789 | 145 |
| The Ottomans and Europe | 148 | |
| The Ottoman economy | 151 | |
| Destabilization at the centre | 158 | |
| Rebellion and decentralization in Ottoman Asia | 165 | |
| Ottoman attempts at reform | 174 | |
| Survival of the Empire | 190 | |
| 6 | Imperialism and Nationalism | 193 |
| The contraction of the Ottoman Empire | 196 | |
| The Ottomans and the Europeans | 199 | |
| The nationalism of the Ottoman minorities | 204 | |
| Turkish nationalism | 209 | |
| The nationalism of other ethnic groups | 210 | |
| The alliance of imperialism and nationalism | 211 | |
| 7 | Environment and Life | 213 |
| Ottoman crops and animals | 221 | |
| Nomads | 224 | |
| Villages | 226 | |
| Towns and cities | 236 | |
| Provincial cities | 238 | |
| Istanbul | 244 | |
| 8 | Turkish Society and Personal Life | 259 |
| Marriage and the family | 262 | |
| Male and female | 271 | |
| Life and death | 277 | |
| 9 | Reform, 1789-1912 | 283 |
| Sultan Selim III | 288 | |
| Sultan Mahmud II | 291 | |
| The age of the Tanzimat | 295 | |
| The Ottoman constitution | 302 | |
| The reign of Abdulhamit II | 305 | |
| The Young Turk revolution | 315 | |
| The government of the Committee of Union and Progress | 319 | |
| Success or failure? | 324 | |
| 10 | The Human Disaster | 327 |
| The Crimean Tatars | 331 | |
| Exile in the East | 333 | |
| The Caucasian exiles | 335 | |
| Greek independence | 337 | |
| Serbia and Bulgaria, 1875-78 | 339 | |
| The Balkan Wars | 341 | |
| The effects of imperialism and nationalism | 344 | |
| 11 | The Great War, 1912-18 | 347 |
| The Balkan Wars | 353 | |
| The sides are drawn | 354 | |
| The war | 358 | |
| The defeat of the Empire | 366 | |
| 12 | Revival, 1918-23 | 369 |
| The Turkish national resistance | 376 | |
| The Grand National Assembly | 379 | |
| The war in the east | 379 | |
| The war in the south | 381 | |
| The war in the west | 382 | |
| The price of war | 386 | |
| The Turks and the Turkish Republic | 388 | |
| Glossary | 389 | |
| Index | 393 |
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