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Gabor Agoston's book contributes to an emerging strand of military history, that examines organised violence as a challenge to early modern states, their societies and economies. His is the first to examine the weapons technology and armaments industries of the Ottoman Empire, the only Islamic empire that threatened Europe on its own territory in the age of the Gunpowder Revolution. Based on extensive research in the Turkish archives, the book affords much insight regarding the early success and subsequent failure of an Islamic empire against European adversaries. It demonstrates Ottoman flexibility and the existence of an early modern arms market and information exchange across the cultural divide, as well as Ottoman self-sufficiency in weapons and arms production well into the eighteenth century. Challenging the sweeping statements of Eurocentric and Orientalist scholarship, the book disputes the notion of Islamic conservatism, the Ottomans' supposed technological inferiority and the alleged insufficiencies in production capacity. This is a provocative, intelligent and penetrating analysis, which successfully contends traditional perceptions of Ottoman and Islamic history.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities History Regional & national history

• Plný název: Guns for the Sultan
• Podnázev: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire
• Autor: Gabor Agoston
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 300
• EAN: 9780521603911
• ISBN: 0521603919
• ID: 02037126
• Nakladatelství: Cambridge University Press
• Hmotnost: 458 g
• Rozměry: 154 × 229 × 20 mm
• Datum vydání: 04. December 2008

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