http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#ottomans Its history and culture. Influence on Europe. Could it really have been worse than what it has been replaced by, i.e., the Middle East and the Balkans today? <P>Cf. <a href="bosnia.html">Bosnia</a>. <P>See also: <a href="early-modern-europe.html">Early Modern Europe</a> <ul>To read: <li>Gabor Agoston, <cite>Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/9780521843133">blurb</a>] <li>Engin Akaril, <cite>The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861--1920</citE> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6199p06t">Online</a>] <li>Walter G. Andrews and Memhmet Kalpakli, <cite>The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society</cite> <li>Karen Barkey, <cite>Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/9780521887403">blurb</a>] <li>Andre Clot, <citE>Suleiman the Magnificent</cite> <li>Dankoff, <cite>The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman: Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588--1662) As Portrayed in Evliya Celebi's Book of Travels</cite> <li>Edhem Eldem et al., <cite>The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul</cite> <li>Suraiya Faroqhi, <cite>Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire</cite> <li>David Fromkin, <cite>A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East</cite> <li>Daniel Goffman, <cite>The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe</cite> <li>Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, <cite>Science, Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire</cite> <li>Cemal Kafadar, <cite>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</cite> [<a href="http://dannyreviews.com/h/Between_Two_Worlds.html">Review by Danny Yee</a>] <li>Kayali, Hasan, <cite>Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918</cite> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7n39p1dn/">online</a> <li>Fuad M. Koprulu, <cite>The Origins of the Ottoman Empire</cite> <li>Kinross, <cite>Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire</cite> <li>G&uuml;lru Necipoglu <ul> <li><cite>The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7981.html">Blurb</a>] <li><citE>Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries</cite> </ul> <li>Leslie Peirce, <cite>Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9388.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Gabriel Piterberg, <cite>An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9632.html">Blurb</a>] <li>S. J. Shaw, <citE>History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey</cite> <li>Wendy M. K. Shaw, <cite>Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9683.html">Blurb</a>] </ul>