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The Ottoman Story Today - Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, by Jason Goodwin. 351 pages, map, illustrations, index. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1999. (Cloth) ISBN 0-8050-4081-1; also published in London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1998. - The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923, by Justin Mccarthy. 406 pages. London: Longman, 1997. (Paper) ISBN 0-582-25655-0 - The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922, by Donald Quataert (New Approaches to European History). 205 pages, illustrations, maps, index. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-63328-1 - The Ottomans, by Andrew Wheatcroft. 322 pages, index. London: Viking, 1993. (Cloth) ISBN 0-670-84412-8. Issued in paper with the title: The Ottomans: Dissolving Images. 315 pages. London, UK: Penguin, 1995. ISBN 0-14-016879-6
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page 35 note 1 New York Times Book Review, May 2, 1999, p. 7.
page 36 note 1 A topic much debated in the post-Saidian world. See Aksan, , “Is There a Turk’ in the Turkish Spy?’ Eighteenth-Century Fiction 6(1994): 201–14Google Scholar; Çirakman, Asli, “From Tyranny to Despotism: The Enlightenment’s Unenlightened Image of the Turks,” UMES 33 (2001): 49–68Google Scholar; and Kaiser, Thomas, “The Evil Empire? The Debate on Turkish Despotism in Eighteenth Century French Political Culture,” Journal of Modern History 72 (2000): 6–34.Google Scholar
page 36 note 2 By contrast, Wheatcroft, published earlier of course, stood at 172,844, McCarthy at 173,059 and Quataert, the most recent, at 307,824 (March 2001). My apologies for making use of the present-day barometer of popularity, but it is telling, if only as a single snapshot.
page 37 note 1 Knolles, Richard, Generali Historie of the Ottoman Empire (London, 1603).Google Scholar
page 37 note 2 The URL for the H-Turk postings archive: http://www2.h-net.msu/~turk/. A thread was started by Andras Riedlmayer 27 April 1999, called “Rehabilitating the Ottoman Empire: Review of a Review.” There he comments: “Ours is a field desperately in need of more well-written, well-researched works of popular history.”
page 39 note 1 Dan Goffman’s pre-1700 volume is in press even as we speak.
page 39 note 2 Edited by Halil inalcik with Donald Quataert (Cambridge, 1994), and since divided into two paperback volumes for classroom use. Suraiya Faroqhi’s boundless energy should also be mentioned here, as her contribution in the Economic and Social History remains one of the most lucid accounts of the middle centuries of the empire. Furthermore, she has just published Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (London: I. B. Tauris, 2000), a translation from a 1995 German version. Others will re view it, but it may well offer the antidote to Goodwin.
page 39 note 3 As does, I think, the introductory chapter to a painful subject in a recent work: Miller, Lorna Touryan and Miller, Donald Eugene, Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide (Berkeley, 1999).CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
page 39 note 4 Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (Berkeley, 1995).