Si Sheppard

Crescent Dawn

The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern Age

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking new history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of a modern Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781472851468
• ISBN-10: 1472851463
• Artikelnr.: 70370057

Autorenporträt

London-born Si Sheppard completed his Bachelors and Masters degrees in New Zealand before receiving his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He is currently an associate professor of political science and international relations at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, and has written several titles for Osprey focusing on the interrelationship between geography, technology, and strategy.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Maps
Family Trees
Naming Conventions
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1: Origins, to First Kosovo and Nicopolis
Chapter 2: Varna, Second Kosovo, and Constantinople
Chapter 3: First Belgrade, First Rhodes, and Otranto
Chapter 4: Persia, and the Fall of the Mamluks
Chapter 5: Suleiman, Part I - Second Belgrade, Second Rhodes, and Mohács
Chapter 6: Suleiman, Part II - Vienna
Chapter 7: Suleiman, Part III - Kingmaker
Chapter 8: The Mediterranean, Part I - Tunis, Preveza, and Algiers
Chapter 9: The Mediterranean, Part II - Malta, Cyprus, and Lepanto
Chapter 10: The East - From Red Sea to Persian Gulf to Indian Ocean
Chapter 11: Africa - In Search of Prester John
Conclusion
Chronology
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

An impressive account of one of the great contests in world history.