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Suleiman the Magnificent
Originally written in French, the translation is pretty good and flows freely. The title is a misnomer as this book is not about Suleiman, his personal life or his achievements. Instead, it takes a long route through the establishment of the Ottoman Empire to its decline, goes into inordinate length into the wars fought by Suleiman and his predecessors and successors and touches upon some cultural and economic aspects of the Ottoman Empire both in Suleiman's time and in its entirety.
I am not complaining with the vast scope to which Clot chose to extend the book, but I did have some issues with the execution. The entire first half of the book is about wars that were fought by the Empire. It goes into excruciating detail about how many men did what where and how, so much so that I got stuck in the chapter describing the fights with the Holy Roman Empire for close to a year because it was so terribly boring. The entire first half of the book deals with this topic in minute detail until you are ready to beg for mercy.
The book is also pretty Eurocentric and while the politics and wars with Spain, France, Hungary, Venic
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Mapping European Stereotypes
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Geographical Fun: A Victorian Teenager Girl’s Exalted Cartographic Caricatures of Inhabitant Countries nearby Their Special Stereotypes
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