A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire

by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu

Book Overview

At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general readers a concise history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, turbulent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691134529
• ISBN13: 9780691134529
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"