TY - BOOK AU - Goodwin,Jason TI - Lords of the horizons: a history of the Ottoman Empire SN - 0099994003 AV - DR486 .G66 1999 U1 - 956.1/015 21 PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Turkey KW - History KW - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 KW - Empire ottoman KW - Histoire KW - fast N1 - Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1998; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - A history of the Ottoman Turks, founders of an empire lasting 600 years and stretching from the Persian Gulf to Hungary, to Algeria. The author describes the harems, the artistic and technological achievements--the cannon was first used by them in the siege of Constantinople--and the religious tolerance to which he attributes the empire's longevity UR - ../WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=0099994003&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=fff5643a5b35a8bdc0a96424f67c8fdcd95dee68bc1a34ae879cec9b1bf03371&ectype=MOREINFO UR - ../WebZ/DCARead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=0099994003:srcdbname=worldcat:fromExternal=true&sessionid=0 ER -