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A cultural history of the Ottomans: the imperial elite and its artefacts

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1784530964 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781784530969 (hbk.)
Author	Faroqhi, Suraiya 1941-
Title	A cultural history of the Ottomans : the imperial elite and its artefacts / Suraiya Faroqhi
Publisher	London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016
Physical desc.	xvi, 318 p., [24] p. of plates ; col. ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-301) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Reusing the work of past times and foreign lands -- The Ottoman sultan: victorious and pious -- Society and its divisions -- A world of three religions: Ottoman conquests and the non-Muslim population -- Making war and peace: fighting, gift-giving and the delineation of borders -- Eating and drinking, mostly from precious objects -- Piles and piles of textiles and leathers -- Earth, water, air and fire: the gifts and perils of nature -- Conclusion.
Subject	Material culture -- Turkey -- History
	Art, Ottoman -- History
	Decorative arts, Ottoman -- History
	Art -- Turkey -- History
	Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
	Turkey -- Civilization -- 1288-1918

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