WRITING OTTOMAN HISTORY: Documents and Interpretations [Variorum Collected Studies Series]

by Heywood, Colin

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Book desription: Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2002 xiv, 356 pp. Portrait, map, facsimiles, footnotes, index. An excellent collection of sixteen reprinted scholarly articles by a leading Ottoman historian. CONTENTS: Preface. 1) The frontier in Ottoman history: old ideas and new myth. 2) Bosnia under Ottoman rule, 1463-1800. 3) English diplomatic relations with Turkey, 1689-1698. 4) Sir Paul Rycaut, a 17th-century observer of the Ottoman state: notes for a study. 5) "Boundless dreams of the Levant": Paul Wittek, the George-Kreis, and the writing of Ottoman history. 6) Wittek and the Austrian tradition. 7) A subterranean history: Paul Wittek (1894-1978) and the early Ottoman state. 8) Between historical myth and 'mythohistory': the limits of Ottoman history. 9) Some Turkish archival sources for the history of the Menzilhane network in Rumeli during the 18th century (Notes and documents on the Ottoman Ulak, I). 10) The Ottoman Menzilhane and Ulak system in Rumeli in the 18th century. 11) The Via Egnatia in the Ottoman period: the Menzilhanes of the Sol Kol in the late 17th/early 18th century. 12) "Yazici defter yazmak dilese..." (notes on the Miftahu'l-hisab-i kava'id-i defter by Dervish Bihisht Saruhani). 13) An unsolved murder in the Marmara (notes on Bodl. MS. Turk. d. 32). 14) A letter from Cerrah Mustafa Pasha, Vali of Tunis, to Sir William Trumbull (A.H. 1099/A.D. 1688). 15) The activities of the state cannon-foundry (Tophane-i 'Amire) at Istanbul in the early 16th century according to an unpublished Turkish source. 16) Notes on the production of 15th-century Ottoman cannon. CONDITION: New.. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket (as issued). 23 x 16 cm.

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