- Recognition of Excellence from Cundill Prize in History - Argues for the inclusion of Ottomans into the Age of Exploration, alongside contemporary overseas empires of Spain and Portugal and rival Islamic states like Mughal India and Safavid Iran. - Beautifully written narrative that highlights the expansionist plans of Ottoman sultans, in conjunction with spies, corsairs, and...(展开全部)

In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim..conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ideologi...(展开全部)

Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements. New institutional configurations emerged; constitutional texts were codifie...(展开全部)

作者 [土耳其]阿里·亚伊哲奥卢，斯坦福大学历史教授，曾在哈佛大学攻读博士学位，方向为历史与中东研究，随后在普林斯顿大学希腊研究中心做博士后研究。第一本专著《帝国的伙伴》获得2016年由美国图书馆学会主办的杰出学术选择奖。 译者 宋宁刚，南京大学哲学博士，现任教于西安财经大学文学院，译有《怪作家》《天使时间：康托洛维茨传》等。

Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements. New institutional configurations emerged; constitutional texts were codifie...(展开全部)

作者 [土耳其]阿里·亚伊哲奥卢，斯坦福大学历史教授，曾在哈佛大学攻读博士学位，方向为历史与中东研究，随后在普林斯顿大学希腊研究中心做博士后研究。第一本专著《帝国的伙伴》获得2016年由美国图书馆学会主办的杰出学术选择奖。 译者 宋宁刚，南京大学哲学博士，现任教于西安财经大学文学院，译有《怪作家》《天使时间：康托洛维茨传》等。

The Age of Reconnaissance, as J. H. Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. Dr. Parry examines the inducements—political, economic, religious—to overseas ente...(展开全部)

The Age of Reconnaissance, as J. H. Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. Dr. Parry examines the inducements—political, economic, religious—to overseas ente...(展开全部)

A preeminent scholar of Turkish history vividly portrays 300 years of this distinctively Eastern culture as it grew from a military principality to the world's most powerful Islamic state. He paints a striking picture of the prominence of religion and warfare in everyday life, as well as the traditions of statecraft, administration, social values, financial, and land policies. ...(展开全部)

A preeminent scholar of Turkish history vividly portrays 300 years of this distinctively Eastern culture as it grew from a military principality to the world's most powerful Islamic state. He paints a striking picture of the prominence of religion and warfare in everyday life, as well as the traditions of statecraft, administration, social values, financial, and land policies. ...(展开全部)