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This is the first book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It sweeps away the accumulated prejudices of centuries and describes the empire of the sultans as a living, changing society, in which the sultan's subjects were able to carry on their lives, religions, and traditions with little outside interference.Stanford J. Shaw is the author of 'History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Volume I: Empire of the Gazis: The rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808 (v. 1)', published 1976 under ISBN 9780521212809 and ISBN 0521212804.
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