At the outbreak of the Great War, the Ottoman Empire entered the conflict exhausted, indebted, and politically isolated, with ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

A historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Itzkowitz transferred to emeritus status in 2001 after 42 years on the faculty. Itzkowitz’s scholarship covered a range of topics and periods in ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The Ottoman Empire, which at the ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a ...

Thus ended the story of Bonneval Ahmed Pasha: once a promising but typical French nobleman, he became an Ottoman pasha. It is ...

Introduction -- 1. The establishment and survival of Ottoman rule in the Arab lands, 1516-1798 -- 2. Institutions of Ottoman rule -- 3. Economy and society in the early modern era -- 4. A world of ...

In the early 20th century, another New York mogul eyed control of the area for U.S. and other foreign interests ...

Rise of Empires: Ottoman is yet another Netflix original docuseries that seeks to spice up history with lavish dramatic reenactments, sexy visuals, and over-the-top battle sequences. Like the Roman ...