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Fodor Pál : The Unbearable Weight of Empire

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The Ottomans in Central Europe - A Failed Attempt at Universal Monarchy (1390-1566).

The book seeks to understand why the Ottoman Empire was constantly at war, why it persistently attacked Hungary for more than a hundred years and why Ottoman leadership regarded Hungary, or more broadly, Central Europe as the most important of its frontlines in the early 16th century. The study’s primary aim is to offer a more realistic picture of the role of the Hungarian/Central European frontier in Ottoman politico-military planning. In doing so, the book attempts to show how the conflict in this region affected the fate of the Ottoman Empire in the long run and how a series of erroneous decisions on the part of the ottoman court led to the failure of its universalist imperial programme. In addition, the author challenges some trends in recent historiography of the Ottoman Empire that go too far in entangling Ottoman and European history.
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category: Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English >
category: Books > History >
category: Books > History > Universal history >
category: Books > History > Hungarian history >
publisher: Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2016
item number / ISBN: 9789639627932
binding: hardcover
pages: 176
language: English
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