The Ottomans : empire of faith /
Nicolle, David,author.
Brown, Iain Gordon,former owner.StEdNL
Includes index.
Turkey before the ottomans : Turks living with Byzantines -- Origins of the Ottoman State : Reaching out to the Sea of Marmara -- Across the Straits : Pushing beyond the Byzantine frontier -- The invasion of Europe : United against the fragmenting Balkans -- Survival and expansion : Tamerland, civil war, and European crusades -- Ottomans int he East : from Istanbul to Egypt, Persia, and Arabia -- The Golden Age : To the sultanate's greaatest extent ... before Vienna -- The Tulip Period : Artistic flowering, music, and the legal systems -- Resotration or reform? Fragmentation and dissolution during the 19th century -- Striving for modernization : From the Hamidian Age to the skies -- Fall of the Ottomans : Disaster and redemption in the early 20th century -- Table of rulers.
Printed label on front paste-down endpaper: Ex libris, Iain Gordon Brown, F.S.A.