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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

Book • 2021
This book by Marc David Baer challenges the traditional depiction of the Ottoman Empire as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West.

Instead, it highlights the Ottomans' debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage.

The book explores the Ottomans' pioneering of religious toleration, their use of religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples, and their eventual embrace of exclusivity leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War. Baer also redefines the dynasty’s enduring impact on Europe and the world, upending Western accounts of the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, and the Reformation.

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Anita Anand
as a beautifully covered book that she enjoyed.
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25. Suleiman the Magnificent
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Kaiser Kuo
as a very readable history that challenges lazy beliefs about the Ottoman Empire.
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The EU-China Relationship in the Age of Trumpian Disruption, with Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP
Mentioned by Matt Lewis as the author of the book, which provides further details on the fall of Constantinople.
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