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This is an evocation of the power of the Ottoman Empire, which swelled and declined over a period of six centuries, rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled on the Danube and the Euphrates. The royal line bent, but never broke, from Osman, born in a desert tent around 1280, to Abdul Mecid, who died in a Paris flat in 1942. For 300 years the Empire held sway amid murmurs of imminent collapse. At its height Istanbul had the wealthiest court in Europe, whose aid was sought by Indian princes and French kings. Its religion was Islamic (but its subjects largely not), its ceremony Byzantine, its dignity Persian, its wealth Egyptian, its alphabet Arabic, its aesthetic Dalmatian, its cruelty and gallantry all its own - and excessive. The decline was prodigious, protracted, and total: after World War I the Ottoman Empire was no more. The book charts its history from the first campaigns to the Charge of the Light Brigade, from the Crusades to the Dardanelles, and aims to bring to life details of Ottoman life: caravans carrying parcels of spice and bags of gold, Western emissaries witnessing executions, distant sentries on far frontiers, jewels, meals, shadow plays and stray dogs.

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'A teeming pageant of a book...noble and witty, embellished with curiosities and written with a never-flagging enthusiasm...Goodwin's evocation of the empire is so rich, so detailed and so astonishing as to be a book of wonders in itself...[he] has clearly set out to distil the story of his chosen Empire into a high-octane work of art. By God, he has succeeded.' - Jan Morris, Independent

'A fascinating read...he writes with an appropriate elan and balances the sweep of great events with a host of revealing and sometimes pungent details...a perfect companion for anyone who visits Turkey and wants to make sense of it and those countries it once ruled' - Lawrence James, The Times

'This portrait of the Ottoman Empire by a former Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys prize-winner is as plush as a Turkish carpet...Goodwin weaves together the threads of barbarism and civilisation with dazzling panache' - Piers Brenden, Mail on Sunday

'[Goodwin's] task is a commendable one. Glimpses into the Ottoman world are rare and too often confined to scholars and their private debates. Goodwin's approach is to dispense with the dry generalisations of scholarship in favour of drama and detail' - Philip Marsden, Sunday Times --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 A disappointment, Mars 22 2004
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This review is from: Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
I bought this book to read as a sort of sequel to "A Short Histroy of Byzantium," and found it as dissappointing as "Byzantium" was satisfying. Perhaps I expected something else, but it's certainly no way to learn about Ottoman history. It glides through the first centuries of the Ottomans without any detail or coherence, then dwells on the fall of Constantinople with virtually no context. That's where I quit reading. I found the two previous reviews apt, but I wish I had read them before I bought the book. At least it was on remainder. This book is also a cautionary tale about relying on blurbs from a publication for which the author is a contributor.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Surprised it's in print, Janv. 24 2004
Par Ian Gold (Boston, MA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
Ceremony, the reviewer below, did a good job on this book. It is very disappointing. My thought while reading it was I was surprised it was in print. I was looking for a nonacademic history of the Ottoman Empire, sort of like the book that's described in the editorial blurbs above, that would be enjoyable to read and a good introduction to the subject. Instead, it's pretty much as ceremony described it. What was most irritating was the prose, which is maddeningly difficult to follow, know-it-all and filled with pointlessly arcane allusions. GO ELSEWHERE.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Inaccurate title, unreadable book, Aoû 19 2003
This review is from: Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
This book bills itself as a "history of the Ottoman Empire," which it most emphatically is not. Instead, it sort of veers between being an informal history and a travel book, but it does neither of these things well. The author is not a historian, but a travel writer, and the book is structured as sort of a historical musing on certain places, loosely fit into an overall narrative of the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire. While this still makes the title inaccurate, it could have at least been interesting had it been done well. Unfortunately, the book suffers tremendously on several counts.

First, it's poorly written. The book tends to drift from topic to topic, sometimes between sentences, making it difficult to follow and destroying any narrative interest before it gets started. It's almost as though the author were documenting his thoughts as he stood at some historical point of interest. The prose itself attempts to be clever but doesn't succeed. Comments such as "the borders became soft as yoghurt, which the Tatars liked to eat" not only make the book impossible to take seriously, but offer the reader endless pointless details which are neither good history (since they are irrelevant) nor good travel observations (because they are not interesting).

Second, the historical accounts tend to read as a simple recounting of the events in question, without any real discussion of the political, social, or ethnographic context, and even so they skip wildly from event to event, with seemingly random elaboration on apparently minor details. The 1683 siege of Vienna, for example, reads like a compilation of people's diaries without regard for what facts actually contribute to an understanding of the events involved. As a history it's vague, incomplete, and completely useless. Often, the author simply spends paragraphs generalizing about things that the participants may or may not have thought, or how certainly places may have looked or may have made some people feel at the time. This doesn't belong in a history, and doesn't work as travel writing because for the most part it's boring and trivial and the prose is that of a smart-aleck.

The book is simply painful to read. Even a nine-hour overseas plane flight with no other reading matter available was insufficient to get me to complete it. The 75% I was able to get through, however, was remarkably consistent, so it's unlikely the remainder is different.

Avoid.

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1.0étoiles sur 5 Inaccurate title, unreadable book
This book bills itself as a "history of the Ottoman Empire," which it most emphatically is not. Read more
Publié le Aoû 19 2003 par ceremony

5.0étoiles sur 5 My Apologies
I must have been drunk when I wrote this book. There was no "Ottoman Empire". You have been cruelly deluded.
Publié le Mai 23 2003 par Clark Voyant

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