The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
Author: Eugene Rogan
Publisher: Allen Lane
Pages: 400
Price: Rs 1,999
The Ottoman Empire endured from the 14th to the 20th century covering a vast area including West Asia and North Africa, the Balkans and some parts of Central Europe. Its unusual longevity as a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multicultural and multilingual entity, ruled from Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) has not been the subject of careful analysis. Western histories have focused on the extended period of its decline in the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was preyed upon by
