Photographs From The Ottoman Empire

<p><b>Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire''s growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power.</b><br><br>Born as a military frontier principality at...

It is an often ignored but fundamental fact that in the Ottoman world as in most empires, there were ¿first-class¿ and ¿second class¿ subjects. Among the townspeople, peasants and nomads subject to the sultans, who might be Muslims or non-Muslims,...