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God's Shadow
- Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
- ナレーター: James Cameron Stewart
- 再生時間: 16 時間 11 分
- カテゴリー: 自伝・回顧録, 軍事・戦争
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Philip and Alexander
- Kings and Conquerors
- 著者: Adrian Goldsworthy
- ナレーター: Neil Dickson
- 再生時間: 20 時間 36 分
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This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world - and their rise and fall from power.
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- 著者: Alex Ross
- ナレーター: Alex Ross
- 再生時間: 28 時間 25 分
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Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.
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The Quiet Americans
- Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
- 著者: Scott Anderson
- ナレーター: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
- 再生時間: 22 時間 1 分
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At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA.
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The Year 1000
- When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
- 著者: Valerie Hansen
- ナレーター: Cynthia Farrell
- 再生時間: 8 時間 59 分
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People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet reached North America, and that the farthest feat of sea travel was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired people in Maya temple murals at Chichén Itzá, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Maya empire?
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River Kings
- A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
- 著者: Cat Jarman
- ナレーター: Cat Jarman
- 再生時間: 7 時間 44 分
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Dr Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist, specialising in forensic techniques to research the paths of Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now more than 1,000 years old, she can determine childhood diet and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers new visions of the likely roles of women and children in Viking culture.
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The Man Who Ran Washington
- The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
- 著者: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
- ナレーター: Michael Quinlan
- 再生時間: 26 時間 35 分
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For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a pause-resisting portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.
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Philip and Alexander
- Kings and Conquerors
- 著者: Adrian Goldsworthy
- ナレーター: Neil Dickson
- 再生時間: 20 時間 36 分
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This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world - and their rise and fall from power.
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- 著者: Alex Ross
- ナレーター: Alex Ross
- 再生時間: 28 時間 25 分
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Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.
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The Quiet Americans
- Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
- 著者: Scott Anderson
- ナレーター: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
- 再生時間: 22 時間 1 分
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At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA.
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The Year 1000
- When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
- 著者: Valerie Hansen
- ナレーター: Cynthia Farrell
- 再生時間: 8 時間 59 分
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People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet reached North America, and that the farthest feat of sea travel was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired people in Maya temple murals at Chichén Itzá, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Maya empire?
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River Kings
- A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
- 著者: Cat Jarman
- ナレーター: Cat Jarman
- 再生時間: 7 時間 44 分
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Dr Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist, specialising in forensic techniques to research the paths of Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now more than 1,000 years old, she can determine childhood diet and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers new visions of the likely roles of women and children in Viking culture.
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The Man Who Ran Washington
- The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
- 著者: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
- ナレーター: Michael Quinlan
- 再生時間: 26 時間 35 分
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For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a pause-resisting portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.
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The Enlightenment
- The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
- 著者: Ritchie Robertson
- ナレーター: Jonathan Keeble
- 再生時間: 40 時間 10 分
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The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism and aims to subjugate nature to so-called technical progress.
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Time of the Magicians
- Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy
- 著者: Wolfram Eilenberger
- ナレーター: Rhett Samuel Price
- 再生時間: 13 時間
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The year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is still fresh for the protagonists of Time of the Magicians, each of whom finds himself at a crucial juncture. Benjamin, whose life is characterized by false starts and unfinished projects, is trying to flee his overbearing father and floundering in his academic career, living hand to mouth as a critic. Wittgenstein, by contrast, has dramatically decided to divest himself of the monumental fortune he stands to inherit, as a scion of one of the wealthiest industrial families in Europe, in search of absolute spiritual clarity.
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- 著者: Declan Walsh
- ナレーター: Roger Clark
- 再生時間: 11 時間 13 分
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis....
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- 著者: Simon Winchester
- ナレーター: Simon Winchester
- 再生時間: 13 時間 46 分
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Land - whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city - is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing - and have done - with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- 著者: Neil Price
- ナレーター: Samuel Roukin
- 再生時間: 17 時間 25 分
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The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture.
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- 著者: Ben Wilson
- ナレーター: John Sackville
- 再生時間: 17 時間 8 分
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From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social, commercial, scientific and artistic revolutions. It is these world-changing, epoch-defining moments that are the focus of Ben Wilson's book, as he takes us on a thrilling global tour of the key metropolises of history.
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Lost Enlightenment
- Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- 著者: S. Frederick Starr
- ナレーター: Kevin Stillwell
- 再生時間: 25 時間 16 分
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Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects.
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Agent Sonya
- Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
- 著者: Ben Macintyre
- ナレーター: Ben Macintyre
- 再生時間: 14 時間 14 分
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In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her.
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The Zealot and the Emancipator
- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Robert Fass
- 再生時間: 16 時間 40 分
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Master storyteller and best-selling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln - two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Brands' thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
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Losing the Long Game
- The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
- 著者: Philip H. Gordon
- ナレーター: Mark Deakins
- 再生時間: 9 時間 45 分
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Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments in the Middle East on an average of once per decade - in places as diverse as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan (twice), Egypt, Libya, and Syria. The reasons for these interventions have also been extremely diverse, and the methods by which the United States pursued regime change have also been highly varied, ranging from diplomatic pressure alone to outright military invasion and occupation
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Missionaries
- A Novel
- 著者: Phil Klay
- ナレーター: MacLeod Andrews, Cynthia Farrell, Henry Leyva, 、その他
- 再生時間: 14 時間 28 分
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A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by US soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and the conflicts that define their lives.
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Mussolini's War
- Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
- 著者: John Gooch
- ナレーター: Mark Elstob
- 再生時間: 21 時間 10 分
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While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in Southern France and Africa. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties and an Allied invasion in 1943 which ushered in a terrible new era for the country.
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Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the 16th century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power, forcing Europeans out of the Mediterranean and to the New World.
Yet, despite its towering influence and centrality to the rise of our modern world, the Ottoman Empire's history has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and even suppressed in the West. Now Alan Mikhail presents a vitally needed recasting of Ottoman history, retelling the story of the Ottoman conquest of the world through the dramatic biography of Sultan Selim I (1470-1520).
Mikhail's game-changing account uses Selim's life to upend prevailing shibboleths about Islamic history and jingoistic "rise of the West" theories that have held sway for decades. Whether recasting Christopher Columbus's voyages to the "Americas" as a bumbling attempt to slay Muslims or showing how the Ottomans allowed slaves to become the elite of society while Christian states at the very same time waged the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, God's Shadow radically reshapes our understanding of the importance of Selim's Ottoman Empire in the history of the modern world.
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- Jens
- 2020/09/15
Entertaining narrative, but poor scholarship
Mikhail provides a gripping and informative narrative of Selim's ascent to power that almost has you cheering for Selim; you get a good feeling for the bizarre and treacherous world of Ottoman dynastic politics. He also does a good job of highlighting some Western blindspots regarding the Ottomans: the critical role they played in global history and their comparative tolerance for minority religions.
Unfortunately, there is a biased undercurrent in Mikhail's writing. You start to see the bias as he depicts Christian Europeans as nervous nellies, paranoid about the Ottomans (who were, of course, such tolerant and enlightened rulers). Apparently, he thinks the fact that Muslim forces sailed up the Tiber to Rome, raided all the way into Switzerland from the West and all the way to Vienna from the east doesn't justify those feelings. Let's be clear: if it not for Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski, Christendom would likely have been wiped off the map. Europeans had plenty of cause to be paranoid.
Mikhail dolefully notes that Muslims had been in Spain for 8 centuries when they were driven out of Granada. He makes no such note about the Christians being driven out of Constantinople after 13 centuries! The sense you get from this book is that when the Ottomans conquer a place, it's just something that happens; when they launch a gratuitous pogrom, murdering 40,000 Alevis and Shiites... no problem! But when the Christians conquer (or actually recover territory that Muslims had previously seized), it's some kind of dastardly and nefarious act.
Along those lines, it's notable that Mikhail avoids even mentioning the term "Ghazi;" -- a term fundamental to Ottoman identity and which every one of the Ottoman Sultans invoked (and many even had in their titles). It means "warrior/raider for the faith." And, no, it was not used in a metaphorical or figurative sense. If you read between Mikhail's lines, you can figure out the pivotal role the ghazi ideal played: Selim earned his stripes by leading a campaign to kill Christian Georgians and rape all their women (and boys). It's a disservice to history and to the Ottomans to whitewash them of their ghazi spirit. Selim would probably have impaled Mikhail for this indignity.
It is perhaps Mikhail's bias that leads him to get so many things wrong--or maybe it's just poor scholarship. Here's a quick list of the more flagrant errors and oversights:
1) "The Muslims gave Christians the lateen sail, launching the age of exploration." WRONG. There are Christian mosaics dating 2 centuries before Islam that show lateen sails. Note the name: it was developed and used by LATINS (i.e. Romans and Byzantines), Arab Muslims learned about it from Coptic Christians in Egypt (it's still used in feluccas).
2) "Spanish conquistadors thought American natives were Muslims." WRONG. Take the Aztecs for example. Cortes and his men were keenly aware of both Islam and the Aztec religion. NOWHERE does either Cortes or Bernal Díaz (the two main primary sources) ever equate the two. They both provided horrific accounts of Aztec ritual sacrifice, which they knew Muslims didn't practice. In any case, Mikhail disproves his own contention. Later in the book, he documents that Christian leaders didn't want to send African Muslim slaves to the new world, lest they plant the seeds of Islam there. Oops! Why would that be a concern if Muslims were already there?
3) "Jihad mostly means an internal struggle to be a better Muslim" WRONG (or at least anachronistic). While that is one possible interpretation of Jihad, it is not what most medieval Islamic jurists believed. I have the entire corpus of Sahih Bukhari on the desk in front of me. It does not contain a single hadith (quote attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, SAW) that uses the term Jihad that way. In one hadith, a blind man asks Muhammad: "Do I have to perform Jihad?" Muhammad says "no." There are similar hadiths for a lame person and a woman. If Jihad is an internal struggle, why would these people be exempt?
4) "Christians waged a war against all of Islam, whereas Muslims only fought against individual kingdoms." WRONG. Starting during the Crusades, both Christian and Muslims pursued all kinds of opportunistic alliances across sectarian lines. For example, the Spanish sent Clavijo to Tamerlane to forge an alliance against the Ottomans. The English courted the Safavids, while the French (starting with Francis I) made pacts with the Ottomans to weaken their Austrian rivals. The Islamic concepts of "Dar al-Islam and "Dar al-Harb" are precisely about waging war against all of Christianity. But along with "Ghazi," these are terms Mikhail avoids mentioning.
5) "Devshirme was actually a good thing for Christian boys." MOSTLY WRONG. Occasionally, Christians in the Balkans sought to send their young sons to join the Janissary corps because it offered the possibility of advancement. But that was the exception. Contrary to what Mikhail intimates, people did not like having their sons kidnapped and forced to convert to a different religion. Oh, and forced circumcision when you're 14 years old: not fun and sometimes deadly.
6) "Islamic slavery was a benign institution compared to European slavery." MOSTLY WRONG. For starters, the Islamic trans-Saharan slave trade had double the mortality rate of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It is true that Islamic slaves could advance to positions of power and influence. But I don't know of a single instance of European slaves being castrated or genitally mutilated -- a common practice for the Ottomans, particularly with African slaves. This was the worst imaginable torture and was often fatal.
7) "Under the 'millet system' (Mikhail refers to the concept, but not the term) different ethnic groups got along famously. Hurrah for multiculturalism!!" Also WRONG. Here's an account from a 17th Century Western visitor to the Ottoman Empire:
"I noted them so desperate malicious towards one another, as each loves the Turke better than they doe either of the other, and serve him for informers, and instruments against one another: the hatred …is at this day so implacable, as hee who in any Christian warre upon the Turke." -- Henry Blount
The Ottomans ruled by keeping ethnic groups divided and pitting them against each other. For example, they used Kurds and Circassians against Armenians and Vlachs and Serbs against Croats. The result was an abiding enmity among these groups; the legacy of Ottoman multiculturalism was FIVE genocides: the Greek, Assyrian, Armenian, Serbian, and Bosnian genocides.
Putting aside the numerous errors and wild and undocumented suppositions, I believe there are about a dozen terms that you need to explain to layman readers just to intelligently discuss the Ottomans: ghazi, millet, devshirme, reaya, askeri, ulama, timar, istimalet, etc. Mikhail only mentions one or two of these by name, and only covers one or two more in concept, and perfunctorily at that.
Instead of this book, I'd recommend "The lords of the Golden Horn: From Suleiman the Magnificent to Kamal Ataturk" It is a much better, and less tendentious, work.
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- Liam Bussell
- 2020/09/20
A little bit of fun, some factual inaccuracies
It’s a good view of a single sultan and an interesting time, but to assume that “the fall of Egypt” and a bunch of other things happened during the reign of a single sultan who actually ruled for a much shorter time than Mehmed or Sulieman. Some military conquests does not make a “great man of history” which is an outdated form of historical analysis anyway. The story of his rise to the throne was perhaps the the most interesting part.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020/09/03
Incredibly in depth account
I’ll keep this short and sweet. Some of this is some perspective changing accounts of the histories of the Mediterranean and the Americas. However, specially towards the end of the book, he was making some strong leaps to connect certain ideas. The book is worth the read or listen and gives an excellent account of Selim’s life. The book was really good and entertaining. The audiobook reader was infuriating to listen to at points because of his random inflection on certain words. If you’re debating on buying this book, I strongly encourage you to do so. The complaints are minor and keep in mind that the author is very much interested in the Ottomans and will seem biased at points. This does not necessarily discredit him but just keep this idea in mind because it’s important to understand the author as well as the book for a complete understanding.
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- sherin
- 2020/09/07
Great History
Without understanding the history we will easily get lost in the future . this book from a credible source states the facts of important.part at the dawn of America’s history. It is informative, interesting... I highly recommend
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- F Shaw
- 2021/04/07
History of an Empire the west ignores
Fascinating, wide ranging and well written.
It is long but full of information that I didn't know, in fact that contradicted my grade school prejudicial history.
Much appreciated. I enjoyed the whole book.
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- Urrooj Rehman
- 2021/03/31
amazing book
I was really delighted. Learned so much and it was told well. Helped me understand more about Sunni Shite politics and modern Turkey.
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- Basim E.
- 2021/02/21
Amazing! A must listen/read
Couldn't stop listening. In order to understand our world today, we must go back in history. Mikhail did an excellent job of highlighting the most authentic sources to address Christian-Islamic relations and the role of politics. He also brilliantly addressed how the Ottoman-Christian struggle affected slavery and politics from the 1400s to today.
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- Terence Lowery
- 2020/12/30
A profound perspective of world history .
Some stories just grab your imagination and take it on a journey of profound experiential vision. This writing and narration has been such an illumination for me. Thank you!
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- Allan
- 2020/11/30
An Underrated Sultan
When one thinks of the Ottoman Empire, one might think of Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II, Muslim expansionism into Eastern Europe, or, in a more ignorant fashion, hordes of barbarians overtaking cities and villages with no discipline. However, Selim I probably does not come to mind, but after listening to this book, he no doubt will. The author shows how Selim potentially saved the empire from crumbling at the hands of the Safavids in 1514, trippled the size of the empire with his expansionist wars, and outmaneuvered his father and kin for the throne. No doubt, Mikhail satisfies the thirst of those looking for the pre-requisites of the Ottoman rise to global power in the 16th century under Suleiman and outlines the often overlooked but vitally important facts about the empire. Filled with interesting facts, battles, and ideological conflicts that were all vying for power in the early 1500's, Mikhail shows how the Ottomans would win the day and that orthodox Sunnism would win and go on to become the largest empire along the Mediterranean since the Roman Empire in large part thanks to Selim.
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- Robert Reitter
- 2020/11/30
Great History
A thrilling and illuminating history of a culture little known in the West. Beautifully written.