THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Book ID/图书代码： 12844021C00026

English Summary/英文概要： Like Charles II, the sick man of Europe was ’an unconscionable time dying.’ Time and time again from the seventeenth century observers predicted the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, yet it outlived all its rivals. As late as 1910 it straddled three continents. Unlike the Romanovs, Hohenzollerns or Habsburgs, the House of Osman was still recognised as an imperial dynasty during the peacemaking which followed the First World War. This book offers a fascinating overview of the Ottoman Empire’s decline from the failure to take Vienna in 1683 to the abolition of the Sultanate in 1922 by Mustafa Kemal, after a revolutionary upsurge of Turkish national pride. It deals with constantly recurring problems: competing secular and religious authority; acceptance or rejection of Western ideas; greedy neighbours; population movements; and the strength or weakness of successive Sultans. The book also emphasises the challenges of the early twentieth century, when railways and oilfields gave new importance to Ottoman lands in the Middle East. Recent events have put the problems that faced the later Sultans back upon the world agenda. Names like Basra and Mosul again make the headlines. So, too, do the old empire’s outposts in Albania and Macedonia in the west and the mountainous Caucasus in the east. Alan Palmer’s narrative reminds us of the long, sad continuity of conflict in the Lebanon. We read of the Kurdish struggle for survival, of Armenian aspirations for independence, of the lingering interests of the Ottomans in their Libyan provinces, and of the Muslim character of Sarajevo in the troubled country that was once Yugoslavia. The Ottoman past has great relevance to the changing patterns of eastern Europe and western Asia in the twentieth century.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 自17世纪开始，奥斯曼即将崩溃的看法便已经出现，可这个兴起于14世纪的帝国却比同时代的大多数竞争对手都长寿，直到1910年，它仍然是一个横跨三大洲的大国。在经历了长达两个多世纪的缓慢衰落之后，它才在第一次世界大战的硝烟中走向终结。这个曾经不可一世的帝国为何会走向衰落?为何衰落过程如此之久?寿终正寝的帝国又给20世纪乃至今天的国际格局带来了怎样的影响?作者将一一解答这些问题。从17世纪奥斯曼与哈布斯堡之间的对决开始，到20世纪20年代凯末尔在充满民族自豪感的革命浪潮中废除最后一代苏丹为止，宫廷之中的阴谋、世俗与宗教的角力、西方思想的冲击、民主与专制的碰撞，伴随着与奥匈帝国、沙皇俄国、英国、法国之间的一次次战争，不停上演，本书将为读者重新梳理这个帝国从衰落走向灭亡的完整历史。(DB)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 艾伦·帕尔默（Alan Palmer，1926— ），毕业于牛津大学国王学院，英国历史学家、历史及传记作家。他于1980年被选为英国皇家文学学会会员。其作品包括《哈布斯堡的黄昏》（Twilight of the Habsburgs）、《英格兰的国王与女王》（Kings and Queens of England）、《亚历山大一世：沙皇的战争与和平》（Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace）等。

Alan Palmer was head of History at Highgate School, London for nineteen years before retiring early to concentrate on historical writing and research. He is the author of more than three dozen works: narrative histories; biographies; historical dictionaries ir reference books. His main interests are in the Napoleonic era, nineteenth century diplomacy, the First World War and Eastern Europe, although his Northern Shores is a history of the Baltic Sea and its peoples from earliest times to 2004. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980.

Of Alan Palmer, Sir John Keegan has written, ’ Alan Palmer writes the sort of history that dons did before ’’accessible’’ became an academic insult. It is cool, rational, scholarly, literate.’

Faber Finds is reissuing a number of his titles: Alexander I, The Gardeners of Salonika, The Chancelleries of Europe, The East End, The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, The Lands Between, Metternich, Twilight of the Habsburgs.

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