Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands Templates powerfully illuminated by the Pulitzer

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Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands Templates powerfully illuminated by the PulitzerA history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governance Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultans court. In Empire of Salons, Helen Pfeifer points instead to a critical but overlooked factor: gentlemanly salons. Pfeifer demonstrates that salonsexclusive assemblies in which elite men displayed their