Colin Imber
Auteur van The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power
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Colin Imber is Senior Lecturer in Turkish at the University of Manchester
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By Colin Imber - The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power (2003-01-30) [Hardcover] (2003) 1 exemplaar
Imperium Osmańskie 1300-1650 1 exemplaar
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The layout of Imber’s book is similar to that of Inalcik’s (which Imber helped translate); an initial section chronicling the political and military history of the period followed by chapters providing an analytical overview of various aspects of the empire. But whereas Inalcik’s book provided a broad ranging survey that included its cultural and religious elements, Imber focuses more narrowly on the institutions of state: the palace, the bureaucracy, and the military. This allows him to provide a more detailed examination of the military state, one that describes its development and shows how it both conquered and governed the lands of three continents.
Clearly written and well grounded in the literature of the field, Imber’s book is a detailed and up-to-date account of the factors underpinning Ottoman power in the first centuries of its existence. Anyone seeking an introduction to the Ottoman empire would do well to start with it. With its concentration on imperial institutions and its closer examination of such things as the Ottoman navy (which has received far more scholarly attention in recent decades than it had when Inalcik wrote his book), it complements rather than replaces Inalcik’s longstanding survey, providing readers with a good foundation for exploring in more detail the last and greatest of the Muslim empires.… (meer)