Author: İ. Metin Kunt File Type: pdf Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as his fellow sovereigns Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII in the west. He greatly expanded the Ottoman empire, capturing Rhodes, Belgrade, Hungary, the Red Sea coast of Arabia, and even besieging Vienna. Patron and legislator as well as conqueror, he stamped his name on an age. These specially-commissioned essays by leading experts examine Suleymans reign in its wider political and diplomatic context, both Ottoman and European. The contributors are Peter Burke Geza David Suraiaya Faroqhi Peter Holt Colin Imber Salih Uzbaran Metin Kunt Christine Woodhead and Ann Williams. **

Author: Charles R. Morris File Type: mobi In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, America went from being a largely rural economy, with little internal transportation infrastructure, to a fledgling industrial powerhousesetting the stage for the vast fortunes that would be made in the golden age of American capitalism. In The Dawn of Innovation, Charles R. Morris vividly brings to life a time when three stupendous American innovationsuniversal male suffrage, the shift of political power from elites to the middle classes, and a broad commitment to mechanized mass-productiongave rise to the worlds first democratic, middle-class, mass-consumption society, a shining beacon to nations and peoples ever since. Behind that ideal were the machines, the men, and the trading and transportation networks that created a new, world-class economic power. **From BooklistAn unprecedented 3.9 percent average annual rate of economic growthsustained for more than a centurypropelled the U.S. to global economic leadership. Morris chronicles the remarkable story behind the remarkable number. To begin with, it is a story of American shipwrights frenetically attempting to match Great Britain in building warships during the War of 1812. Peace meant that American industrialists turned to making shoes, stoves, steam engines, and locomotives, yet they still strove to wrest world economic leadership from Britain. Readers soon realize that American capitalists who surmounted daunting technical challenges (through homegrown Yankee ingenuity and through industrial espionage) also solved a formidable social problem. Instead of building British-style Coketowns that enriched a few while immiserating the masses in the factories, Americas economic pioneers spread the benefits of modern productivity throughout a mass-consumption society. Morris concludes with a provocative comparison of the nineteenth-century duel pitting the U.S. against Great Britain and todays rivalry between China and the U.S. Economic history freighted with social and political relevance. --Bryce Christensen ReviewA Daily Beast Favorite Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of the Year** Kirkus The author is at his best when he focuses on the people behind the technology. Morris research is thorough. Ambitious. Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief of ProPublica and former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Charles Morris, fast becoming our leading narrative historian of economic success and scandals, tells how nineteenth-century America outproduced, outmarketed, outdistributedand stole technology fromthe former No. 1 power, Great Britain, to displace it on the world stage. The fascinating tale also holds crucial lessons for Americans as China races to unseat the U.S. as the world leader. Charles H. Ferguson, director of Inside Job and author of Predator Nation A fascinating book that pulls together the strands of American development into a sweeping and vivid account of the nations rise to economic preeminence. Charles Morris has a special gift for making complicated subjects accessible and even entertaining. BooklistAn unprecedented 3.9 percent average annual rate of economic growthsustained for more than a centurypropelled the U.S. to global economic leadership. Morris chronicles the remarkable story behind the remarkable number Morris concludes with a provocative comparison of the nineteenth-century duel pitting the U.S. against Great Britain and todays rivalry between China and the U.S. Economic history freighted with social and political relevance. USA TodayMorris obviously possesses an inquiring mind. [He] explicates developments skillfully. PublishersWeekly.comMorriss analysis shines brightest in the final chapter as he compares the United States past economic growth with the current hyper-expansion of China. Only then, by examining the hurdles China faces in its ascendance to economic superpower, does Morris show how truly innovative the transformation of America was and why it will be impossible to repeat in the future. Tyler Cowen, New York Times Magazine, One-Page MagazineThe early 19th century as a pep talk for today. John Steele Gordon, Wall Street Journal[A]n illuminating narrative that shows, among much else, what happened when Yankee ingenuity met the Industrial Revolution. Post-Civil War industrialization had an important and largely overlooked predecessor in the first decades of the 19th century. It is a story well worth telling, and Mr. Morris tells it well. The authors in-text illustrations and diagrams are very helpful in showing the cleverness and ingenuity of mechanisms designed by such forgotten giants as the clockmaker Eli Terry, the gun maker Thomas Blanchard and the steam-engine designer George H. Corliss. Mr. Morriss deft character sketches bring them to life as well. The steam engine powered the steamboat and the railroad, which knitted the country together into one huge common market, allowing industrial economies of scale that would, in the later 19th century, astonish the world. Civil EngineeringIn an elegantly written assessment of how the current situation is likeand unlikeits 19th-century analogue, Morris flashes the knowledge and insight that landed him on the Council on Foreign Relations and crafts an effective coda for his paean to American innovation. Michael Lind, New York Times Book ReviewTo the often-told story of Americas initial industrial development, Morris adds fresh data and insightful revisions. He begins The Dawn of Innovation with a fascinating account of how the rivalry of the early United States and Britain to dominate the Great Lakes produced a shipbuilders war that helped trigger industrial development here. [Morris] is persuasive in arguing that America grew so rich so rapidly in part because it was largely born free. Physics Today [Morris] provides an engaging account of the remarkable technologies, businesses, and distribution systems that developed across the continent