TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barber,Noel
TI  - The sultans
SN  - 0671216244
PY  - 1973///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon and Schuster
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
N1  - Bibliogr.: p. 293-296
N2  - The subject of this vast, astonishing and brilliantly readable work of history is the bizarre story of the Ottoman Empire, seen through the lives and actions of its sultans, with their absolute power and terrifying cruelty, their love of pomp and magnificence and their overwhelming venality and corruption. The author describes the men, the events, the daily life, the strange customs of Turkey's court, from her emergence as a great power in the sixteenth century to the death of Kemal Ataturk, who overthrew the Sultanate to establish a new and more modern form of tyranny. This book is a unique and fascinating record of four centuries of glory, debauchery, splendor and cruelty. --From inside jacket flap
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