The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a ...
May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that of ...
King's College London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. For centuries empires were the dominant form of political organisation. In the west there is some degree of familiarity with ...