The Sultan And His Subjects Revised And Brought Up To Date By The Author With A Frontispiece

A vivid, unsparing portrait of power and people at a pivotal moment. It is brisk, observant, precise. Richard Davey's The Sultan And His Subjects channels a late-Victorian intelligence into acute cultural observations of the 19th century, combining the documentary eye of Victorian social commentary with the wry corrective of a British satire book. The work examines Ottoman Empire society and the delicate choreography between monarchy and subjects without exoticising its people or softening ...