The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a ...

essential reading for historians of western Europe and for those interested in the interaction of states in the early modern period. Thought provoking and strenously argued, The Ottoman Empire and ...

He states that his empire influenced ‘nearly every major event’ of the era, ‘from China to Mexico’. ‘The ineluctable fact is that the Ottoman Empire made our modern world,’ he declares, with ...