Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

303 Pages·2003·3.56 MB·English

by  Jason Goodwin

LORDS OF THE HORIZONS
Jason Goodwin is an award-winning travel writer and historian. His first book,
The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels through India and China in Search of Tea,
was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Awards, 1991, and his
second, On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul, was the winner of the
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, 1993. He is the author of the internationally
acclaimed detective series set in 1840s Istanbul and featuring Yashim the
Eunuch. He lives in Dorset with his wife and four children.
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JASON GOODWIN
Lords of the Horizons
A History of the Ottoman Empire

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Contents
Map of the Ottoman Empire

Introduction

Prologue
Part I Curves and Arabesques

1. Origins

2. The Balkans

3. Thunderbolt

4. The Siege

5. The Centre

6. The Palace

7. War

8. Suleyman the Magnificent
9. Order

10. Cities

11. The Sea

12. Rhythms
Part II The Turkish Time

13. The Turkish Time

14. Stalemate

15. The Cage

16. The Spiral

17. The Empire
Part III Hoards

18. Hoards

19. Koprulu and Vienna

20. Austria and Russia
21. Ayan

22. Shamming

23. Borderlands

24. The Auspicious Event

25. The Bankrupt

Epilogue
Ottoman Sultans
An Ottoman Chronology
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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sabres, lances, Kraljevic, Kobilic, Zdrinovic, necklets, medallions, decrees,
heads chopped off, slaves carried away, etc. May those who find them pleasing
sing them; may those who do not, go off to sleep.
Andrija Kacic-Miosic, The Pleasant Conversation
of the Slavic People, Venice, 1756