Bibliography
for the Ottoman Empire.

General works

Six centuries, three continents

• Finkel, Caroline. Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. London: John Murray, 2005. The accessible standard one-volume narrative; 700 pages.
• Faroqhi, Suraiya, et al., eds. The Cambridge History of Turkey. 4 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006–2013. The standard scholarly reference.
• Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• İnalcık, Halil. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300–1600. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. The classic study of the early and middle Ottoman period.

Chapters I–III — Foundation through Suleiman

The classical age, 1299–1566

• İnalcık, Halil. The Middle East and the Balkans Under the Ottoman Empire. Bloomington: Indiana University Turkish Studies, 1993.
• Kafadar, Cemal. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
• Imber, Colin. The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: The Structure of Power. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• Crowley, Roger. Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453. London: Faber & Faber, 2005.
• Mansel, Philip. Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453–1924. London: John Murray, 1995.

Chapters IV–VI — Stalemate and retreat

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

• Faroqhi, Suraiya. The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.
• Aksan, Virginia. Ottoman Wars 1700–1870: An Empire Besieged. London: Routledge, 2007.
• Stoye, John. The Siege of Vienna. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000. The 1683 turning point.

Chapters VII–IX — Reform, Abdülhamid, Young Turks

The long nineteenth century

• Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
• Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü. Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902–1908. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Akarli, Engin. The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861–1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
• Akçam, Taner. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006.

Chapter X — The end

Dissolution, 1918–1923

• Rogan, Eugene. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East. London: Allen Lane, 2015.
• Mango, Andrew. Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey. London: John Murray, 1999.
• Macmillan, Margaret. Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War. London: John Murray, 2001. The Sèvres and Lausanne settlements.

Primary sources in translation

The Ottoman voice

• Çelebi, Evliya. Seyahatnâme (Book of Travels). 17th-century Ottoman travel narrative; an abridged English translation is by Robert Dankoff and Sooyong Kim, An Ottoman Traveller. London: Eland, 2010.
• Süleyman the Magnificent. Kanunname (Book of Laws). Partial English translation in Heyd, Uriel, Studies in Old Ottoman Criminal Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
• The Ottoman archives at Istanbul (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi) have been progressively digitised since 2010 and are accessible at www.devletarsivleri.gov.tr.