The University Academics Admission & Aid Athletics Campus Life Events Library

New Titles

We have 14 items with all of the following terms:
Click [x] to remove a term, or use the facets in the sidebar to narrow your search. What are facets? Results sorted by the date added to the collection.

Paradise Lost : Smyrna 1922 : The Destruction Of A Christian City In The Islamic World

Remapping The Mediterranean World In Early Modern English Writings

Creating East And West : Renaissance Humanists And The Ottoman Turks

  • Creating East And West : Renaissance Humanists And The  Ottoman Turks
  • Attribution

    Nancy Bisaha
  • Publication Details

    Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
  • Description

    “Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity.”–James Hankins, Harvard University As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Tags

    · · · · ·
  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
     (LOWER LEVEL)  CB251 .B57 2004  AVAILABLE

The Ottoman Empire And The World Around It

Turkey : The Quest For Identity

The Ottoman Empire And Early Modern Europe

Armies Of The Ottoman Turks, 1300-1774

The Janissaries

  • The Janissaries
  • Attribution

    Godfrey Goodwin
  • Publication Details

    Book, Saqi, 1997
  • Description

    From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. The book begins by exploring the origins of the janissary corps with the careful selection of youths from Christian families in the Balkans. By the middle of the sixteenth century discipline among the janissaries had declined, but the real fault lay with the sultan and his ministers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Tags

    · · · ·
  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
     (LOWER LEVEL)  DR448 .G66 1997  AVAILABLE

The Ottomans In Syria : A History Of Justice And Oppression

Lords Of The Horizons : A History Of The Ottoman Empire

  • Lords Of The Horizons : A History Of The Ottoman Empire
  • Attribution

    Jason Goodwin
  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st American ed, H. Holt, 1999
  • Description

    Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For the next three hundred years the Empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Tags

    · · ·
  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
     (LOWER LEVEL)  DR486 .G66 1999  AVAILABLE

The Ottomans

The Ottoman Empire And The World-economy

The Turkish Empire; From 1288 To 1914,

History Of The Ottoman Empire And Modern Turkey

  • History Of The Ottoman Empire And Modern Turkey
  • Attribution

    Stanford Shaw
  • Publication Details

    Book, Cambridge University Press, 1976
  • Description

    Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808 is the first book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It describes how the Ottoman Turks, a small band of nomadic soldiers, managed to expand their dominions from a small principality in northwestern Anatolia on the borders of the Byzantine Empire into one of the great empires of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe and Asia, extending from northern Hungary to southern Arabia and from the Crimea across North Africa almost to the Atlantic Ocean. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Tags

    · · · · · ·
  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
     (LOWER LEVEL)  DR440 .S5  v.1  AVAILABLE