Guns for the Sultan

Name: Guns for the Sultan
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521843133
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Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire

Autor: Gábor Ágoston

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Editura: Cambridge University Press

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Gabor Agoston's book contributes to an emerging strand of military history, that examines organised...

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Autor

Gábor Ágoston

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2005

Pagini

300

EAN

9780521843133

ISBN

0521843138

Enbook ID

02046562

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

613

Dimensiuni

160 x 235 x 25

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Gabor Agoston's book contributes to an emerging strand of military history, that examines organised violence as a challenge to early modern states, their societies and economies. His is the first to examine the weapons technology and armaments industries of the Ottoman Empire, the only Islamic empire that threatened Europe on its own territory in the age of the Gunpowder Revolution. Based on extensive research in the Turkish archives, the book affords much insight regarding the early success and subsequent failure of an Islamic empire against European adversaries. It demonstrates Ottoman flexibility and the existence of an early modern arms market and information exchange across the cultural divide, as well as Ottoman self-sufficiency in weapons and arms production well into the eighteenth century. Challenging the sweeping statements of Eurocentric and Orientalist scholarship, the book disputes the notion of Islamic conservatism, the Ottomans' supposed technological inferiority and the alleged insufficiencies in production capacity. This is a provocative, intelligent and penetrating analysis, which successfully contends traditional perceptions of Ottoman and Islamic history.

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