JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
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> Can anyone recommend a good general introduction to the history of The O
> Empire, preferably literate and not too Brit imperialist or Orientalist?
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Not specifically on the Ottoman Empire but a very fine Marxist book on Turkey with a good intro chapter on the Ottomans is *State and Capital in Turkey* by Cagler Keyder Verso.1987. There's a good bibio in it. Books in English on Turkey are few.
-S