Short History of the Ottoman Empire

Renée Worringer is an associate professor of Islamic and Middle East History in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.

• List of Maps List of Figures List of Genealogical Charts Abbreviations, Dates, and Glossary AcknowledgmentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. The Early Ottoman Synthesis: Inheritors of Multiple Traditions3. The Ottoman Emirate: Consolidating Power, Evolving Strategies4. Ottoman Interregnum and Revival5. Becoming an Empire: Tools of State6. Reaching Imperial Heights: Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire7. Life in the Ottoman Empire8. An Empire Changing: The Balance of Power at Home and Abroad9. Late Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Disruptions, Eighteenth-Century Intrusions and Exchanges10. The "Long" Nineteenth Century: Reform, Change, and the Rise of Nationalism11. At Empire’s End12. The Empire at War13. Epilogue: Ottoman Legacies and Turkey's Ghosts Glossary Credits Index