Author: Stanford J. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: empire, ottoman, rise, gazis, decline, turkey, modern, history, volume
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1976-10-29
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0521291631
ISBN-13: 9780521291637

Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808 is the first book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It describes how the Ottoman Turks, a small band of nomadic soldiers, managed to expand their dominions from a small principality in northwestern Anatolia on the borders of the Byzantine Empire into one of the great empires of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe and Asia, extending from northern Hungary to southern Arabia and from the Crimea across North Africa almost to the Atlantic Ocean. The volume sweeps away the accumulated pre