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Ottoman Empire

Goodwin, Jason. Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire. Holt, 1999. An account that merges history, travel writing, and meditation.

Kinross, Lord. The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire. William Morrow, 1988. Readable, engaging history of the Empire.

Kunt, Metin, and Christine Woodhead, eds. Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World. Longman, 1995. An account of the Ottoman Empire as ruled by the 16th-century sultan whose reign invites comparison to that of his western contemporary, Henry VIII.

McCarthy, Justin. The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923. Addison-Wesley, 1997. A broad history of the Ottoman Empire and its people.

Pierce, Leslie P. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press, 1993. The role of women under Ottoman rule. Part of a series called Studies in Middle Eastern History.

Sugar, Peter F. Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804. University of Washington Press, 1997. The experience in the Balkans during centuries of Ottoman sovereignty.