‘The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe’ Review: Nostalgia for the Sultan

Corrupt, decadent, backward, perennially broke and plagued by rebellions, the Ottoman Empire shrank and fell inexorably apart over the course of two centuries before finally disappearing in 1922. That, at least, had been the consensus view, especially among the Turks who afterward settled for a…

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