Imperial Meanderings and Republican By-Ways: Essays on Eighteenth Century Ottoman and Twentieth Century History of Turkey

This collection of essays by Robert Olson on the Ottoman Empire covers a number of topics of great interest to Ottoman historians. The volume is divided into sections on: the Tulip Period (Lâle Devri) of the Ottoman Empire; the Ottoman-Iranian wars; Jews in the Ottoman Empire; Kurds in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire; and historiographical theories of change, modernity and decline in the eighteenth century. Ranging from the 1970s to the 1990s, Olson s work comprises some of the first scholarly attempts at exploring many of these issues and remain essential reading in their fields.