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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire Paperback – April 24, 2007

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The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I. In this magisterial work-the first definitive account written for the general reader-renowned scholar and journalist Caroline Finkel lucidly recounts the epic story of the Ottoman Empire from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction in the twentieth.

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April 24, 2007
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"Caroline Finkel effortlessly conveys the high drama of Ottoman history."―Orhan Pamuk

"Magnificent.... For perhaps the first time in English, a genuine Ottoman scholar has written a clear narrative account of the great empire based mainly on Turkish rather than hostile western accounts. The result is not only a revelation; it is a vital corrective to the influential but partial and wrong-headed readings of the flagbearers of intellectual Islamophobia."―William Dalrymple, The Scotsman

"Finkel has managed to produce a scholarly, lucid, judicious and enjoyable account of over 600 years of history in a single volume, which will surely be the standard work of its kind for many years to come."―Times Literary Supplement

"An absorbing, monumental story of one of the most reviled and misunderstood of all empires.... Osman's Dream is a marvelous achievement."―BBC History Magazine

"How timely to have such a lucid, well-researched, and fair-minded history of the Ottoman Empire--and one too which treats it not as some exotic and alien world, but as part of our common past."―Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919

"Osman's Dream is a treasure for anyone who wants to know exactly what happened when in the Ottoman Empire. Here at last is a reliable history that takes into full account not only the work of international and Turkish historians but also the writings of the Ottomans themselves."―Hugh Pope, author of Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of theTurkic World

"Finkel has brilliantly woven together a highly readable survey of 600 years of Ottoman history. Well researched and beautifully written, Osman's Dream will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about the Empire that ruled for centuries over so many of our contemporary trouble spots--from the Balkans to the Arab world."―Heath W. Lowry, Princeton University

"Finkel is judicious, evenhanded and objective...is an impressive and important work."―The Nation

"[Finkel's] mastery of the historical literature is obvious: The sheer amount of information packed between these two covers makes it a landmark achievement."―New York Sun

"With this superb book, Finkel boldly covers new ground in striving to show the Ottoman Empire from within.... Having spent 15 years living in Turkey, Finkel is uniquely positioned to overcome the practical hurdles to Ottoman research, but her real strength is in historiography: she has a keen ability to extract salient observations from her sources even as she renders their political motives transparent. The result is a panorama of the Ottoman Empire to rival the best portraits of the Romanovs and Habsburgs, and a must-have for history collections."―Booklist

"The timing of Caroline Finkel's splendidly written Osman's Dream reflects the buoyant state of Ottoman scholarship. Neglected archives have been triumphantly mined by a new generation of scholars, and Finkel's intimacy with the material makes this the most authoritative narrative history of the empire yet published."―Literary Review

"Osman's Dream is a deeply sympathetic, compelling and highly readable account of the rise and fall of an immensely complex and dynamic society which, at its height was the most the most far-reaching and the most powerful Empire the world had ever seen. But it is also something more. For Caroline Finkel has not only told history of how a band of Turcoman warriors from eastern Anatolia came to dominate so much of the world. She has also shown why that history matters, why today we are in no position to understand, not merely the modern Republic of Turkey but also modern Islam unless we also understand the past, and the present perception, of the greatest and most enduring of the Islamic states."―Anthony Pagden, Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science, UCLA

About the Author

Caroline Finkel has lived in Istanbul for many years and traveled widely in Turkey and the former Ottoman lands. She has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Osman's Dream is her third book. She currently divides her time between Istanbul and London.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Basic Books; 3/25/07 edition (April 24, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 674 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0465023975
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465023974
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 2 x 9.25 inches

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A detailed, comprehensive history

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2008

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Finkel's history of the Ottoman empire is certainly comprehensive in scope, encompassing the empire from its origins in the late middle-ages to the rise of Ataturk. Yet I begrudgingly give it four stars. While the scope and scale of the Ottoman empire is presented in detail, there was an ebb and flow to the relative strength of her writing, which was distracting.

The first quarter of the history is remarkable - I assume this is Finkel's area of expertise, given the detail of the political, religious and social climate of Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean in the 13th and 14th centuries. How Osman began to exploit the various divisions of competing ethnic groups, religions, and constantly shifting political loyalties is shown masterfully. With such a strong start, I was disappointed in her treatment of the founding and expansion of the empire in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Recognizing that this is an *Ottoman* history, I had expected more detail and information on the conquest and occupation of the Balkans, the political competition between Hungary, Poland, Habsburg Austria and the mariatime powers of Venice and Genoa. These states were of course disucssed, but I had expected a deeper, more nuanced historical analysis of the complex econcomic and political competition between each of them.

Thankfully Finkel again finds her footing as she writes about the 18th and 19th centuries - in fact, her discussion of the slow and painful implosion of the Ottoman empire was, to me at least, the best part of the book as she intertwines the various causes of its decline: increased econcomic competition from industrializing European nations, the influx of silver from the New World, new shipping routes to India and Asia, the adoption of "real politik" by European nation-states (and the reluctance to do so by the Ottomans), growing national movements within the Ottoman empire, and of course the overall reluctance by the Janissaries and ulaema to embrace change and moderinzation in any form.

In writing, the amount of historical detail is almost overwhelming - repeatedly I had to remind myself what the larger point being made was given the sheer volume of information she shares. Clearly she is writing for an academic audience, something potential customers may want to keep in mind. In writing for an academic audience, I was disappointed at the relative lack of primary sources she used in her research and writing; many sources are translations or are cited in previously published works. All criticism aside, this is a densely detailed work, with a comprehensive view of the Ottoman empire, and a solid history of an important empire in world history.

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Magnitogorsk

An Overall Good Historical Narrative of the Ottoman Empire

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2014

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If you have any interest in the Ottoman empire this is a great place to start. It is a big book but it is easy and straight forward to read and follows all the rulers of the Ottoman empire in order to tell the history of the empire from its origins to its fall. It is a basic narrative, however, as it avoids details of the economics, culture, society and the specifics of military engagements. Although it does manage to discuss architecture quite often and which Sultan constructed which buildings, museums, Mosque's etc. This did not bother me too much as to go into that kind of detail could possibly have doubled the size of the already hefty book. It is mostly a story of the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire and the overall big picture with a great bibliography and close attention paid to the chronology of the empire. So a great place to start and acquire an over all better understanding and knowledge of the Ottoman Empire and its major events and rulers compared to the next guy in the room.

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Bertil Haggman

Valuable book on the Ottoman Empire

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 22, 2017

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Caroline Finkel's book "Osman's Dream" is a useful book on the history of the Ottoman empire. It starts with the dream of the first sultan, Osman. He is said to have dreamt about a large tree growing from his navel. Its shade encompassed large parts of the world including distant mountains and mighty rivers. It was a clear sign of the wishes of the early sultans to build an empire. It would stretch across North Africa, including Egypt and also Persia as well as the Middle East.

It should be rembered also, that Turkey was important in the attempts to stop Russian imperialism from Peter I and through the nineteenth century. During the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) the Ottomans cooperated with Sweden, Poland and Ukraine against Moscow. Sweden's King Charles XII, Ivan Mazepa and Pylyp Orlyk were permitted to reside on Ottoman territory.

Later Sweden, France and Turkey cooperated to stop Russian expansion. The first Turkish treaty with a Christian nation was with Sweden in 1739 when Sweden sought to reconquer territories lost during The Great Northern War. This events are covered in Mrs Finkel's book.

Published in 2006 this book is still one of the best books on the Ottoman empire.

Mr. Bertil Haggman, LL.M.
author, Sweden

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Arthur Worster

A journey through the centuries of a key and little understood part of our history

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2015

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I started into the book expecting a reasonably abbreviated summary of this period in our history (world history). What I found very quickly became an incredibly detailed and thorough history of the Ottomans for more than 600 years. Encompassing all of the significant cultural and political entities during that time, the book creates a vision of how the world from North Africa to Europe and South Asia reacted to the establishment of the political and religious functions that became the Ottoman Empire and eventually the caliphate. While the book ends with the final chapter of the Ottomans as the remnants became modern Turkey in the 1920s, what is left are the religious and political divisions that define even modern day conflicts in areas from Eastern Europe to North Africa and on through Iran into South Asia. For those wanting to gain a better understanding of how the current political and religious divisions throughout these areas developed and why many of the divisions appear to be characterized by an unreasonable intransigence, this book has to become part of your reference library.

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Markus Zachary Xavier Hunter-Vrooman

The complete history of the Ottoman Empire in English. Grateful!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 12, 2021

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I enjoyed reading the first English contemporaneous book about the entire history of the Ottoman Empire in a single book. Dr. Finkel writes in the prologue that the 700 hundred year old history will not cover the trendy bits like cultural, socio-political, and microscopic (little people), but will focus on a chronological political and diplomatic history emphasizing human agency over socio-economic trends. I'm just happy to have a history of the Ottoman Empire in one volume in English. Dr. Finkel does incorporate new interpretations of Ottoman history, therefore her historiographical pedagogy makes up for the omission of cultural and socio-economic currents.

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Osman's Dream

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Dona C.

Excelente

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on February 7, 2019

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Excelente producto.

Manny

Amazing book about Turkish history

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 3, 2021

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This book is an amazing and great summary of the history of the great Ottoman empire. In fact, it is so detailed that you will know (almost) every detail you need to know about the history of the Empire. However, even though it is detailed, it does not get boring and personally, I finished the book in one day. Strongly recommended!

Dusten Edward Stewart

Disappointing

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 2, 2012

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I ordered this book, looking for a general history of the Ottoman Empire as a basis for further reading. Unfortunately, I found it an unuseful text, and ultimately a tedious read due to the excessive minutiae. The text provides overwhelming detail, including hundreds upon hundreds of names of characters who appear only in a paragraph never to be heard of again, without any real unifying themes or analytical framework being put forward to assist the reader in comprehending the detail. The narrative lacks coherence, and fails as a general text as it lacks any meaningful discussion of social or intellectual forces at work. The writing never caught my interest. I finally just put it down in frustration after about 200 pages, as again we were being told of border disputes with the Safavids, provincial unrest, an executed vizier, and a meddling mother of the sultan, etc. The details overwhelmed the narrative. I cannot comment on the quality of scholarship, but I can say that this is not a helpful book for someone, such as I am, looking for an introductory understanding of the sweep of Ottoman history. It would likely be more helpful for an advanced reader to establish narrative details, but I found it a disappointment.

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