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Subject: Re: Books on the Ottoman Empire
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I am no expert on Ottoman history (just an enlightened amateur from Ottoman
land), but I suggest you try the following titles:

	Halil Inalcik, "The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300-1600",
	      Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London (1973).
	 
	Stanford J. Shaw and Ezel Kural Shaw, "History of the Ottoman
	      Empire and Modern Turkey", 2 vols, Cambridge University
	      Press, London(1976-7).

	Lord Kinross, "The Ottoman Centuries", Jonathan Cape, London,
	     (1977).


For the modern period a standard book is:
	
	Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, Oxford University
	     Press (1968).


These will get you started. If you need more details or other references
on political sociological analyses of modernization movements in the 
region or on the "asiatic mode of production" ideas, contact me thru
e-mail.

Nuzhet DALFES
Natural Systems Group
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO 80307
303.497.1640