Full name: Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

Author: Jason Goodwin Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312420666 0312420668

For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at its height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched the empire's aid. In its last three hundred years the empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. In this striking evocation of the empire's power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on. In doing so, he also offers a long look back to the origins of problems that plague present-day Kosovars and Serbs. Similar books: Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire by Alan Palmer The Ottoman Centuries by Lord Kinross The Ottoman Endgame by Sean McMeekin The Fall of the Ottomans by Eugene Rogan Turkey by Erik J. Zurcher Civilization by Roger Osborne Catastrophe by David Keys A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Constantinople by Philip Mansel The Berlin-Baghdad Express by Sean McMeekin Sons of the Conquerors by Hugh Pope Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink