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Carter Vaughn Findley is Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is the author of Ottoman Civil Officialdom: A Social History and Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922, as well as a co-author of Twentieth-Century World, among other titles. He is a past president of the World History Association and the Turkish Studies Association.
"This is a first-rate book, of a kind that has never been written
before."--Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Association
"An ambitious and timely book...One has to admire his ability to
make accessible long-range and deeply complex
developments."--Matthew Gordon, Journal of World History
"An original and masterful synthesis of the complex six-thousand
year history of the tribes, clans, and empires that produced the
dozens of peoples generally known as Turks or TurkicAny tribute to
Findley, already at the pinnacle of Turkish and Ottoman studies, is
fully deserved."--Kemal Karpat, The Historian
"Findley's book has many merits, and he has written a considered
and balanced, as well as a readable, survey, which should help to
bring the disparate fields of 'Turkic'/Turkish/Ottoman history to
the attention of a non-specialist audience."--The International
History Review
"A timely, rich, and accessible work. A welcome addition to the
field of world history."--Africa and the Middle East
"Findley's study is to be admired for its attempt to place the
history of the Turks within the larger context of world history and
its wide-ranging discussion of the impact of modernity."--Middle
East Journal
"Carter Vaughn Findley's book is one of the most noteworthy
achievements in recent years and a very welcome and needed
contribution to Turkish and Turkic studies. The story of the
'Turks,' from their pre-Islamic, nomadic times to their glorious
and powerful Islamic empires, and to their encounter with Western
ideas and ideals, is masterfully presented in a single and
accessible volume accompanied by specially generated maps and
pictures."--American
Historical Review
"[M]akes an important contribution to the study of world history as
well as to its immediate topic, the history of the various Turks
over the past 1,500 years."--D.M. Fahey, Miami University
"Cater Vaughn Findley's history of the Turkish people certainly has
original, learned aspects, and although it is not consistently
supported by primary texts, it is certainly worth other scholars'
deep attention...Findley's done quite a fine job."--Journal of the
Society of American Studies
"[A] timely, rich, and accessible work that examines the spatial
and temporal shifts in Turkic peoples'identity formation and the
trajectory from steppe, to empire, to nation-state."--History
"This is a much-needed, welcome and highly readable introduction to
the Turkic world and its complex evolution. Findley's book, based
on the most recent scholarship, has the added advantage of being
set in a global context, connecting the important stages in the
history of the Turkic peoples with larger, world-historical
processes."--Peter B. Golden, author of An Introduction to the
History of the Turkic Peoples
"The Turks in World History offers a masterful overview and
interpretation of the entire Turkish historical experience.
Throughout, Findley skillfully interweaves heritages from early
nomadic life with complex subsequent encounters with settled
farmers and urban societies, down to and including the recent
Turkish diaspora into western Europe and overseas."-William H.
McNeill, co-author of The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World
History
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