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Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. A classic; vol. 2 particularly relevant, gives a picture of events in their Mediterranean context. Economic and social history of Ottoman Empire.

Cook, M. A., ed. A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730: Chapters from the Cambridge History of Islam and the new Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Maps, index, small bibliography. Brief collection of essays by recognized experts in the field.

Inalcik, Halel. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300-1600. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. Translated by N. Itzkowitz and Colin Imber. A classic, thorough text.

Inalcik, Halil, ed. The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Organization and Economy. London: Variorum Reprints, 1978. Collected Studies Series. Papers gathered from conferences, periodicals, books—published between 1954 and 1974. Descriptive and analytical. Clear delineation of aspects. Edited by one of the main authorities.

Itzkowitz, Norman. The Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1972. A religious/social study.

Kinross, Lord John Balfour Baron. The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire. London: Cape, 1977. Analysis of diplomacy, policy, society. In-depth standard text.

Lewis, Bernard. The Emergence of Modern Turkey. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

Palmer, Alan. The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire. London: John Murray (Publishers) Ltd, 1992. A “narrative history”, interesting and well-researched, clear and readable. One of the main commentators on the Ottoman Empire.

Peirce, Leslie Penn. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Modern interpretation of the role of women in Ottoman society and diplomacy.

Shaw, Stanford J. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Vol 1 Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Introduction for students—short, clear, helpful.

Wheatcroft, Andrew. The Ottomans: Dissolving Images. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1995. Interprets Western idea of the Ottomans, very interesting and readable, an enjoyable introduction.

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Brummett, P. Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery. Albany, NY, 1994. Valuable for the Mediterranean campaigns.

Cook, M. A. ed. A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. A collection of reliable articles from the Cambridge Histories.

Forster, E. D. ed. The Turkish Letters of Olgier Ghiselin de Busbecq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1927. The impressions and insights of a contemporary European ambassador.

Inalcik, Halil. The Ottoman Empire: the Classical Age 1300-1600. London, 1973. Essential background.

Lybyer, Albert H. The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleyman the Magnificent. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1913. Old and over-simplified but still the clearest account of its subject.

Merriman, R. B. Suleiman the Magnificent. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1944. A well written biography based on European language sources.

Rogers, J. M. and Ward, R. M. Suleyman the Magnificent. London: British Museum Publications, 1988. Excellent introduction to a well illustrated catalogue of an exhibition.

Veinstein, Gilles, ed. Soliman le Magnifique et son temps. Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 1992. Articles in English and French containing the most recent research using Ottoman sources.