Introduction -- The Early Ottoman Synthesis: Inheritors of Multiple Traditions -- The Ottoman Emirate: Consolidating Power, Evolving Strategies -- Ottoman Interregnum and Revival -- Becoming an Empire: Tools of State -- Reaching Imperial Heights: Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire -- Life in the Ottoman Empire -- An Empire Changing: The Balance of Power at Home and Abroad -- Late Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Disruptions, Eighteenth-Century Intrusions and Exchanges -- The "Long" Nineteenth Century: Reform, Change, and the Rise of Nationalism -- At Empire's End -- The Empire at War -- Epilogue: Ottoman Legacies and Turkey's Ghosts.