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the cambridge history of TURKEY * Volume I of The Cambridge History of Turkey examines the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia from the arrival of the first Turks at the end of the eleventh century to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453. Taking the period as a whole, rather than dividing it along the more usual pre-Ottoman/Ottoman fault line, the volume covers the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural history of the region as the Byzantine Empire crumbled and Anatolia passed into Turkish control to become the heartland of the Ottoman Empire. In this way,the contributors to the volume engagewithandemphasisethecontinuitiesoftheeraratherthanits dislocations, situating Anatolia within its geographic context at the crossroads of Central Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The world which emerges is one of military encounter, but also of cultural co-habitation, intellectual and diplomatic exchange, and political finesse. This is a state-of-the-art work of reference on an understudied period in Turkish history by some of the leading scholars in the field.
kate fleet is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Stud- ies, Newnham College, Cambridge, and Newton Trust Lecturer in Ottoman History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University. Her previous publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State (1999) and, as joint-editor, The Ottomans and Trade (2006).
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the cambridge history of TURKEY Founding editor I. Metin Kunt, Professor of History, Sabancı University
The Cambridge History of Turkey represents a monumental enterprise. The History, comprising four volumes, covers the period from the end of the eleventh century,with the arrival of the Turks in Anatolia, through the emergence of the early Ottoman state, and its development into a powerful empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, encompassing a massive territory from the borders of Iran in the east, to Hungary in the west, and North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula in the south. The last volume covers its destruction in the aftermath of the First World War, and the history of the modern state of Turkey which arose from the ashes of empire. Chapters from an international team of contrib- utors reflect the very significant advances that have taken place in Ottoman history and Turkish studies in recent years.
volume i Byzantium to Turkey, 1071–1453 Edited by Kate Fleet
volume 2 The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453–1603 Edited by Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet
volume 3 The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603–1839 Edited by Suraiya N. Faroqhi
volume 4 Turkey in the Modern World Edited by Res¸at Kasaba
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF TURKEY
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VOLUME I Byzantium to Turkey, 1071–1453
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Edited by KATE FLEET
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