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THE OTTOMANS - MARC DAVID BAER KARTONIERT (TB)

The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the
Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic 
multilingual  and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. In their breadth and
versatility  the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans'
remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire  Marc David Baer traces their
debts to their Turkish  Mongolian  Islamic and Byzantine heritage  how they used both religious
toleration and conversion to integrate conquered peoples  and how  in the nineteenth century 
they embraced exclusivity  leading to ethnic cleansing  genocide  and the dynasty's demise
after the First World War. Upending Western concepts of the Renaissance  the Age of Exploration
the Reformation  this account challenges our understandings of sexuality  orientalism and
genocide. Radically retelling their remarkable story  The Ottomans is a magisterial portrait of
a dynastic power  and the first to truly capture its cross-fertilisation between East and West.

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