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New York Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2008 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 370 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Maps.

ISBN10: 1847252206, ISBN13: 9781847252203, [publisher: Continuum] Hardcover
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New York Continuum 2008 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 370 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Maps.

ISBN10: 1847252206, ISBN13: 9781847252203, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Hardcover Hardcover. Is it possible to identify the essence' of Ottoman kingship? And if so, what were the core motivating principles that governed the dynasty over its 600 year lifespan and how continuous and consistent were they? Following the death of the dynasty's eponymous founder Osman in 1324, 35 successors held the throne. Despite the wide range of character traits, dispositions and personal preferences, they led the expansion, stagnation and eventual collapse of the empire. Rhoades Murphey offers an alternative way of understanding the soul of the empire as reflected in its key ruling institution: the sultanate. For much of the period of centralized Ottoman rule between ca. 1450 and 1850 each of the dynasty's successive rulers developed and used the state bureaucratic apparatus to achieve their ruling priorities, based around the palace and court culture and rituals of sovereignty as well as the sultan's role as the head of the central state administrative apparatus. Sovereignty was attached to the person of the sultan who moved (with his court) both often and for prolonged stays away from his principal residence. In the period between 1360 and 1453 there were dual capitals at Bursa and Edirne (Adrianople) and even after 1453 several Ottoman sultans showed a preference for Edirne over Istanbul. Even Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent - held by the Ottoma ...