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RR 2017/238The Ottoman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia Mehrdad Kia ABC-CLIO Santa Barbara, CA 2017 ISBN 978 1 61069 389 9 URL: www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A4089C Last visited August 2017 Contact publisher for pricing informationEmpire of the WorldAlso available as a 2 vol. print set (ISBN 978 1 61069 388 2 £153 $198)
The Ottoman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia , reviewed here in its e-book version, is a further contribution to ABC-CLIO's developing Empires of the World series. According to the publisher's website publicity blurb, "the series explores the defining characteristics of the greatest empires in world history" and is intended to "help students understand the factors that led to the rise and fall of the empires, their various forms of government, and the key people who shaped them" (). To date four volumes in the series have appeared of which The Ottoman Empire is the latest. Previous titles are The Persian Empire (Kia, 2016) (RR 2017/178), The Mongol Empire (May 2017) and The Spanish Empire (Tarver, 2016) (RR 2017/059). Kia, who also produced The Persian Empire contribution, is Director of the Central and South West Asian Studies Center at the University of Montana. He has written widely on the Middle East and Turkey including two previous titles for ABC-CLIO, Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (Kia, 2011) and The Ottoman Empire in the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1,500-1900 series (Kia, 2008).
Like the other encyclopedias in the series, this title essentially comprises essay-style entries, arranged in topical sections, backed by a selection of primary documents. About 180 essays are provided, all apparently penned by Kia, arranged alphabetically by headings in the following sections: Battles and Treaties; Beys and Pashas; Empire and Administration; Historians, Writers, Poets and Scholars;...