The Ottoman empire as a world power, 1453-1603 / edited by Suraiya N. Faroqhi, Kate Fleet - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 - xxv, 697 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm - Cambridge history of Turkey ; 2 . - Cambridge history of Turkey ; v. 2 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-663) and index

Introduction / An expanding empire -- The Ottomans, 1451-1603: a political history introduction / Ottoman expansion in the Europe, ca. 1453-1606 / Ottoman expansion in the East / Ottoman expansion in the Mediterranean / Ottoman expansion in the Red Sea / Government, economic life and society -- Government, administration and law / The Ottoman government and economic life: taxation, public finance and trade controls / Ottoman armies and warfare, 1453-1603 / Religious institutions, policies and lives / Ottoman population / Culture and the arts -- The order of knowledge, the knowledge of order: intellectual life / The visual arts / The literature of Rum : the making of a literary tradition (1450-1600) / Suraiya N. Faroqhi -- Kate Fleet -- Palmira Brummett -- Ebru Boyar -- Kate Fleet -- Salih Özbaran -- Colin Imber -- Murat Çizakça -- Géza Dávid -- Gilles Veinstein -- Suraiya Faroqhi -- Gottfried Hagen -- Çiğdem Kafescioğlu -- Selim S. Kuru

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Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Turkey--History--1453-1683
Turkey--Foreign relations
Turkey--Social conditions--1288-1918
Turkey--Civilization--1288-1918

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