Product Description

From the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries the armies of the Ottoman empire brought terror, in the name of Islam, to much of the Christian world. This title argues that it is possible to form and disseminate negative views of an enemy for political and strategic reasons, yet be able to reconfigure those views as necessity dictates.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340457 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

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Review
'. . . provides a good survey of early modern Habsburg representations of the "Turkish" other and gives the reader a fascinating insight into Habsburg anti-Ottoman propaganda.' --Times Higher Education

'An excellent, well-researched work on the Habsburg-Ottoman rivalry. In addition to issues of politics and military strategy, this work examines the impact of culture and religion on this rivalry . . . will prove beneficial to experts in the field, scholars of world history, and students of international politics.' --Sixteenth Century Journal

'A sensitive book, enriched by wise scholarship.' --Journal of Islamic Studies

'[a] welcome contribution of a sensitive and flexible conceptual framework to explore east-west relations.' --Central European History

'[Fichner's] elegant essay should interest not only scholars in the history of Muslim-Christian relations or early modern Central Europe, but also those interested in the roles scholarship can play in shaping our civic identities.'
--Canadian Journal of History

About the Author
Paula Sutter Fichtner is professor of history emerita at Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of many books including Protestantism and Primogeniture in Early Modern Germany (1997), Emperor Maximilian II (2001), and The Habsburg Monarchy 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire (2003).