附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.
Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction: The Content and Form of This Study; Part One: Foundations; Part Two: Historiography; Part Three: The State; Epilogue: Poetics of Ottoman Historiography; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
摘要: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.
