History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Volume 1: Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280 - 1808

Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280–1808 is the first book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It describes how the Ottoman Turks, a small band of nomadic soldiers, managed to expand their dominions from a small principality in northwestern Anatolia on the borders of the Byzantine Empire into one of the great empires of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe and Asia, extending from northern Hungary to southern Arabia and from the Crimea across North Africa almost to the Atlantic Ocean. The volume sweeps away the accumulated prejudices of centuries and describes the empire of the sultans as a living, changing society, dominated by the small multinational Ottoman ruling class led by the sultan, but with a scope of government so narrow that the subjects, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, were left to carry on their own lives, religions, and traditions with little outside interference. Frontmatter Preface (page vii) Abbreviations (page ix) Note on Pronunciation (page xiii) Map of the Growth of the Ottoman Empire to 1683 (page xiv-xv) Part One. Rise of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1566 1 The Turks in History (page 1) 2 The First Ottoman Empire, 1280-1413 (page 12) 3 Restoration of the Ottoman Empire, 1413-1451 (page 41) 4 The Apogee of Ottoman Power, 1451-1566 (page 55) 5 The Dynamics of Ottoman Society and Administration (page 112) Part Two. Decentralization and Traditional Reform in Response to Challenge 6 Decentralization and Traditional Reform, 1566-1683 (page 169) 7 New Challenges and Responses, 1683-1808 (page 217) 8 Ottoman Society, Administration, and Culture in the Age of Decentralization and Traditionalistic Reform, 1566-1808 (page 280) Map of the Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1683-1924 (page 300) Bibliography: Ottoman History to 1808 (page 302) Index (page 325) V. 1. Empire Of The Gazis: The Rise And Decline Of The Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808.--v. 2. Reform, Revolution, And Republic: The Rise Of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975. Stanford Shaw. Vol. 2 By S. J. Shaw And E. K. Shaw. Includes Bibliographical References (p.v. 1, P. 302-324 ; V. 2, P. 441-466) And Indexes. This volume discusses the modernization of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and analyzes the external pressures, reform measures, institutional changes, and intellectual movements that affected the heterogeneous Ottoman society during the Empire's last century. v. 1. Empire of the Gazis: the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808. v. 2. Reform, revolution, and republic: the rise of modern Turkey, 1808-1975.