Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1774 - The Ottoman Empire (Greene Molly)(Paperback)

An examination of the history of the Greeks in the Ottoman EmpireShortlisted for the 2015 London Hellenic PrizeThe period of Ottoman rule in Greek history has undergone a dramatic reassessment in recent years. Long reviled as four hundred years of unrelieved slavery and barbarity ('the Turkish yoke'), a new generation of scholars, based mainly but not exclusively in Greece, is rejecting this view in favour of a more nuanced picture of the Greek experience in the Ottoman Empire.This volume considers this new scholarship, most of it in Greek, and makes it accessible for the first time to a wider audience. Molly Greene also discusses the changing views of the Ottoman Empire more generally and assesses what this changing historiography can tell us about this period in Greek history. The book begins with the conventional date of 1453, the fall of Constantinople, and
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