＊ 本书收入黑白插图以及五张地图
＊ 本书完整回述了奥托曼帝国的开始到结束，从它如何在梦想里诞生到最后如何因为第一世界大战而摧毁
'An absorbing, monumental story . . . a reliable, authoritative account . . . a balanced assessment of the Ottomans . . . a marvellous achievement, which deserves to provoke widespread debate' (Jerry Brotton, BBC History magazine)
A Turkish delight (Metro (London))
'Splendidly written . . . Finkel's intimacy with the material makes this the most authoritative narrative history of the empire yet published . . . Detailed . . . Her narrative focuses on the dynamics of the imperial story . . . lively analysis' (Jason Goodwin, Literary Review)
'History written with a dynamic, modern feel and penetrating gaze' (Good Book Guide)
Instructive . . . A fine single-volume account of a long and at times complicated period . . . Finkel clearly loves her subject (The Tablet)
'The freshness of Finkel's history [is] striking. The secret, apart from an irresistible narrative style, is a generous openness to every aspect of Ottoman life and culture . . . What has often come across as an impossibly exotic procession of Viziers, Beys and Pashas is here brought vividly home to the reader' (Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman)
'Excellent' (The Times)
奥托曼帝国的第一位苏丹奥斯曼曾经做过一场梦，梦到他会创办一个帝国。梦里面他的肚脐长出一棵树，代表了他继承人将会多么有精力、他们的领域将会多庞大。这是市面上第一本完全呈现奥托曼帝国的书，包括所有重要的人物的故事。
奥斯曼的继承人们结合了来自他们游牧根源的足智多谋以及帝国的世界观来征服了拜占庭。结果是一个多种族的帝国，他们在统治的600年里拥有巨大的影响力以及权力，在最高峰的时候领域从匈牙利一直到波斯湾，从北非到高加索山脉。
任何希望了解现代世界的读者都应该阅读这本书，看到这个巨大帝国如何从一场梦变成一个伟大的帝国。
关于作者：
Caroline Finkel在土耳其伊斯坦堡住了许多年。他拥有奥托曼历史学的博士学位，出版过许多文章。她学过匈牙利文、阿拉伯文、波斯文、奥托曼文以及土耳其文。这是她的第三本书。
From Publishers Weekly
What Finkel calls the "old" narrative of the Ottoman Empire is simple to relate: "it rose, declined, and fell." An exotic parade of salacious sultans, grand viziers and duplicitous eunuchs inhabit the sultry harems and domed palaces of Istanbul—at least in our imaginations. Finkel, a long-time resident of Turkey and Ottoman scholar, relates a "new" narrative of empire that properly accounts for the richness and complexity of the Ottoman state over nearly seven centuries. By presiding over their multiethnic empire for so long, and ushering it from medievalism to modernity, the Ottomans should be ranked alongside the Hapsburgs and the Romanovs, she argues. That they are overlooked is the fault of Western historians who have peered at their subjects through the lens of their own prejudices. Finkel's striking innovation is to turn a mirror on the Ottomans and examine how they saw themselves and their empire. While this approach yields a refreshingly original perspective, Finkel's quest to improve Westerners' understanding occasionally leads her into some questionable stretches (an implication, for instance, that Westerners think all Muslims are terrorists). Happily, these remain unintrusive and this history makes a riveting and enjoyable read for all audiences. 16 pages of photos; maps. (Mar.)
From Booklist
*Starred Review* To be blunt, historians have neglected the Ottoman Empire. Stifled by language barriers, problematic sources, and cultural blinders (and no doubt somewhat bewildered by the task of narrating an empire that lasted from 1299 to 1922 and extended from Sarajevo to San'a), American and European academics have been content to chew on small pieces of Ottoman history, limiting public conception of the empire to narrow notions of sultans, military maneuvers, and elaborate bathing facilities. With this superb book, Finkel boldly covers new ground in striving to show the Ottoman Empire from within, as the Ottomans themselves saw it--a perspective that, thanks to centuries of politically motivated selective perception, even modern Turks have had great difficulty ascertaining. Having spent 15 years living in Turkey, Finkel is uniquely positioned to overcome the practical hurdles to Ottoman research, but her real strength is in historiography: she has a keen ability to extract salient observations from her sources even as she renders their political motives transparent. The result is a panorama of the Ottoman Empire to rival the best portraits of the Romanovs and Habsburgs, and a must-have for history collections. Brendan Driscoll
- 奥斯曼的一场梦：奥托曼帝国的故事
- Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923
- 作者：Caroline Finkel
- 出版社代理人：John Murray（英国）
- 出版时间：2005年7月
- 页数：688页
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- 版权联系人：tina@peonyliteraryagency.com
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