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The sultans / Noel Barber.

By:

Barber, Noel, 1909-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1973.Description: 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0671216244

Subject(s):

Turkey -- History

Summary: The subject of this vast, astonishing and brilliantly readable work of history is the bizarre story of the Ottoman Empire, seen through the lives and actions of its sultans, with their absolute power and terrifying cruelty, their love of pomp and magnificence and their overwhelming venality and corruption. The author describes the men, the events, the daily life, the strange customs of Turkey's court, from her emergence as a great power in the sixteenth century to the death of Kemal Ataturk, who overthrew the Sultanate to establish a new and more modern form of tyranny. This book is a unique and fascinating record of four centuries of glory, debauchery, splendor and cruelty. --From inside jacket flap.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Գրքեր/Books	Fundamental Scientific Library	Gulbenkian Individual Collection	Gulb/3583 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	ILL Non-Circ.		901003583

Bibliogr.: p. 293-296.

The subject of this vast, astonishing and brilliantly readable work of history is the bizarre story of the Ottoman Empire, seen through the lives and actions of its sultans, with their absolute power and terrifying cruelty, their love of pomp and magnificence and their overwhelming venality and corruption. The author describes the men, the events, the daily life, the strange customs of Turkey's court, from her emergence as a great power in the sixteenth century to the death of Kemal Ataturk, who overthrew the Sultanate to establish a new and more modern form of tyranny. This book is a unique and fascinating record of four centuries of glory, debauchery, splendor and cruelty. --From inside jacket flap.

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