{"product_id":"2026200017319-secondhand-the-sick-man-of-europe-ottoman-empire-to-turkish-republic-1789-1923","title":"The Sick Man Of Europe: Ottoman Empire To Turkish Republic 1789-1923","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of empires and civilisations, the Ottoman state—once the mightiest power in the known world—spent its final century in a slow, agonising unravelling, a saga of revolution, war, and national rebirth that Charles Swallow chronicles with unflinching precision in The Sick Man of Europe. Spanning the tumultuous period from 1789 to 1923, the work traces the dramatic arc of an imperial giant from the reforming tremors of the late eighteenth century through the catastrophic theatre of the First World War and the ultimate emergence of the modern Turkish Republic under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.\n\nSwallow presents this sweeping transformation not merely as political history, but as a profound human drama shaped by nationalism, religious identity, great-power rivalry, and the violent birth of a new state from the ruins of an old order. Writing with clarity and authority befitting the Benn's World Histories series, he illustrates how the so-called Eastern Question consumed European diplomacy for over a hundred years, pitting imperial ambitions against one another on the bones of a dying empire. Readers who wish to understand the deep roots of modern Middle Eastern and Mediterranean geopolitics will find this compact yet richly detailed account an indispensable starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210260750555,"sku":"2026200017319-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c71d246f-188e-48e4-9e67-2a8f8909feb0.png?v=1788268230","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017319-secondhand-the-sick-man-of-europe-ottoman-empire-to-turkish-republic-1789-1923","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}