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| Very detailed, if a bit dry, account of the background, planning, and disastrous execution of the Fourth Crusade. Particularly strong on the question of whether the sack of Constantinople was premeditated or not: Queller and Madden convincingly show ...more | |
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Patricia's review
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God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World:
"The opening didn't bode well. "The ideological wind propelling the white sails of Columbus's three ships was the fifteenth-century world's most exigent political struggle--the one between Catholic Europe and the Muslim Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman emp"
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Matthew Miller's review
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God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World:
"Ever read '50s propaganda novels? The US is great, we have no problems, everything is fine! Or vice versa with regards to the Soviets?
This is one of those for the Ottoman Empire. It is an orgasmic dump of pro-Ottoman nonsense and rage-filled venting " Read more of this review » |
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Abdürrahim Özer's review
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God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World:
"If it was a work of fiction, I could give it three stars. Unfortunately the author presents his work as a revisionary/revolutionary historical study, in which case it does not deserve any star, but there is no such option in this website. There is of"
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