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Article: Turks young and old.(Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire)(Book review)
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Osman's Dream:
The History of the Ottoman Empire, by Caroline Finkel
(Basic, 660 pp., $35)
IN his Lectures on Modern History, posthumously published exactly a century ago and now available in a handsome edition from Liberty Fund, Lord Acton observed that "Modern History begins under stress of the Ottoman Conquest." Does that judgment surprise you? We've been hearing--endlessly--how everything in the Islamic sphere today is to be understood as a response to "modernity," variously construed. Yet Acton says that modern history itself--the world system that is still with us, however modified, with its origins in Europe--began as a response to the ...
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