An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play

by Gabriel Piterberg

In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma-the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start-that a scholar pronounced the period's three-day-long dramatic climax "an Ottoman Tragedy." Under Gabriel Piterberg's deft analysis, this period of crisis becomes a historical laboratory for the history of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520238362
• ISBN13: 9780520238367
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"