The European Tributary States is the first attempt to give a comprehensive overview of the similarities and differences in the Ottoman Empire's relationship to Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate as well as the Cossack Hetmanate.

The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI was sent into exile by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk). In this definitive history of the Ottoman Empire, Lord Kinross, painstaking historian and...(展开全部)

The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI was sent into exile by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk). In this definitive history of the Ottoman Empire, Lord Kinross, painstaking historian and...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, the north-eastern Balkans were under-populated and under-institutionalized. Yet, by the end of the following century, the regions of Deliorman and Gerlovo were home to one of the largest Muslim populations in southeast Europe. Nikolay Antov sheds fresh light on the mechanics of Islamization along the Ottoman frontier, and presents an instructive c...(展开全部)

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He then became a journalist and writer.

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He then became a journalist and writer.

China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can surviving traces of that era's print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books? Home and the World addresses this question by carefully examining a wide range of late Ming books, considering them not merely as texts...(展开全部)

艾伦·帕尔默（Alan Palmer，1926— ），毕业于牛津大学国王学院，英国历史学家、历史及传记作家。他于1980年被选为英国皇家文学学会会员。其作品包括《哈布斯堡的黄昏》（Twilight of the Habsburgs）、《英格兰的国王与女王》（Kings and Queens of England）、《亚历山大一世：沙皇的战争与和平》（Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace）等。 汪枫，历史图书作者、译者，世界史专业，中国翻译协会会员。曾参与国家社科基金特别委托项目“中国周边国家对华关系档案收集及历史研究”。著有《南美大陆的战火：三国同盟战争》《北欧雄狮：古斯塔夫二世传》等，译有《决胜波罗的海：瑞典帝国百年战史》《维京人》等。

艾伦·帕尔默（Alan Palmer，1926— ），毕业于牛津大学国王学院，英国历史学家、历史及传记作家。他于1980年被选为英国皇家文学学会会员。其作品包括《哈布斯堡的黄昏》（Twilight of the Habsburgs）、《英格兰的国王与女王》（Kings and Queens of England）、《亚历山大一世：沙皇的战争与和平》（Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace）等。 汪枫，历史图书作者、译者，世界史专业，中国翻译协会会员。曾参与国家社科基金特别委托项目“中国周边国家对华关系档案收集及历史研究”。著有《南美大陆的战火：三国同盟战争》《北欧雄狮：古斯塔夫二世传》等，译有《决胜波罗的海：瑞典帝国百年战史》《维京人》等。

艾伦·帕尔默（Alan Palmer，1926— ），毕业于牛津大学国王学院，英国历史学家、历史及传记作家。他于1980年被选为英国皇家文学学会会员。其作品包括《哈布斯堡的黄昏》（Twilight of the Habsburgs）、《英格兰的国王与女王》（Kings and Queens of England）、《亚历山大一世：沙皇的战争与和平》（Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace）等。 汪枫，历史图书作者、译者，世界史专业，中国翻译协会会员。曾参与国家社科基金特别委托项目“中国周边国家对华关系档案收集及历史研究”。著有《南美大陆的战火：三国同盟战争》《北欧雄狮：古斯塔夫二世传》等，译有《决胜波罗的海：瑞典帝国百年战史》《维京人》等。