Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman’s empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the longest-lasting empire in the history of Islam, and offers a telling clue to its unique legacy. Underlying every aspect of the Ott...(展开全部)

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the n...(展开全部)

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the n...(展开全部)

The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains. This is the first book to tell the full story of the Ottoman dynasty that for six centuries held sway over territories stretching, at their greatest, from Hunga...(展开全部)

The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains. This is the first book to tell the full story of the Ottoman dynasty that for six centuries held sway over territories stretching, at their greatest, from Hunga...(展开全部)

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail uses the history of the empire's m...(展开全部)

Alan Mikhail is Professor of History at Yale University.

A comprehensive account of the rise of the Ottoman dynasty utilizes a vast amount of original and secondary material in forming a major history--from its beginnings to the present day. ------------ Contents Preface; Abbreviations; Note on pronunciation; Map of the growth of the Ottoman Empire to 1683; Part I. Rise of the Ottoman Empire, 1280–1566: 1. The Turks in history; 2. Th...(展开全部)

斯坦福·肖于1930年出生在美国。先后在斯坦福和普林斯顿等大学学习伊斯兰史和土耳其史。他长期在哈佛大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系任教，讲授土耳其语和土耳其历史。1999年他受邀到土耳其安卡拉任比尔肯特大学的奥斯曼和土耳其史教授。除了本书外，其主要著作还有：《奥斯曼埃及的财政和行政组织及其发展（1517—1798年）》（1962）、《新与旧之间：塞利姆三世时期的奥斯曼帝国（1789—1807年）》（1971）和五卷本的《从帝国到共和国：土耳其的民族解放战争（1918—1923）》（2001）等。鉴于他对土耳其史研究做出的贡献，斯坦福·肖曾获得土耳其历史协会、美国－土耳其协会授予的“终身成就奖”（1981、1989年）等荣誉称号。

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 rea...(展开全部)