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100	1		_aBarber, Noel, _d1909- _9287508
245	1	4	_aThe sultans / _cNoel Barber.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon and Schuster, _c1973.
300			_a304 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aBibliogr.: p. 293-296.
520			_aThe 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.
651		0	_aTurkey _xHistory
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