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God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

byAlan Mikhail

God’s Shadow is Alan Mikhail's biographical portrait of sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Publication date

Aug 18, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

496

ISBN

9781631492396