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Further Reading
If you wish to keep exploring these revolutions, this is a working list of sources that I used for the show and would suggest as further reading. Please feel free to let me know if there are any other books that you would suggest me to add here. Enjoy!
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Season 1 - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse
Suggested Podcasts for Further Listening!
The Bulgarian History Podcast - Eric D. Halsey
Ottoman History Podcast
Revolutions - Mike Duncan
The History of Rome - Mike Duncan
The History of Byzantium - Robin Pierson
Suggested reading for Season 1 on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. This is a working list and will continue to grow as the season progresses.
Baer, M. D. (2023). The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs. Basic Books.
Bogosian, Eric. Operation Nemesis : The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide. New York, Back Bay Books / Little, Brown And Company, 2017.
Crampton, R J. A Concise History of Bulgaria. Cambridge University Press, 24 Nov. 2005.
Clark, Christopher M. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York, Harper, 2012.
Fahmy, Khaled. All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. Cambridge Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009.
Fahmy, Khaled. Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt. London Oneworld Academic, 2018.
Figes, Orlando. The Crimean War : A History. New York, Picador, 2012.
Fromkin, David. (2000). A Peace to End All Peace. Weidenfeld & Nicolson History.
Glenny, Misha. The Balkans : Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2012. London, Granta, 2018.
Hanioglu, M. Sukru. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2008.
Hanioglu, M. Sukru. Ataturk : An Intellectual Biography. Princeton Univ Press, 2013.
Hanioğlu, M Şükrü. Preparation for a Revolution : The Young Turks, 1902-1908. Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
Hanioglu, Sükrü M. The Young Turks in Opposition. New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Inalcik, Halil. (1994). The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300-1600 (N. Itzkowitz & C. Imber, Trans.). Weidenfeld & Nicolson History.
Kévorkian, Raymond. The Armenian Genocide. Bloomsbury Publishing, 30 Mar. 2011.
Kieser, Hans-Lukas. Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide. S.L., Princeton University Pres, 2020.
Klein, Janet. The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2011.
Mango, Andrew. Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey. Abrams, 26 Aug. 2002.
Mazower, Mark. (2023). The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe. Penguin Books.
Mazower, Mark. (2002). The Balkans: A Short History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
McMeekin, Sean. (2016). The Ottoman Endgame War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923. Penguin Books.
Mikhail, Alan. (2021). God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World. Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Nalbandian, Louise. The Armenian Revolutionary Movement. Univ of California Press, 1963.
Norwich, J. J. (2017). Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe. Tantor Media.
Rogan, Eugene L. The Fall of the Ottomans : The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920. New York, Basic Books, 2016.
Suny, Ronald Grigor. “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else” : A History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, England, Princeton University Press, 2015.
Walker, Christopher J. Armenia, the Survival of a Nation. London : Croom Helm, 1980.
Zens, Robert. "In the Name of the Sultan: Haci Mustafa Pasha of Belgrade and Ottoman Provincial Rule in the Late 18th Century," International Journal of Middle East Studies 44:1 (2012): 129-46.
Zens, Robert. “Pasvanoglu Osman Pasa and the Pasalik of Belgrade, 1791-1807,” International Journal of Turkish Studies 8:1-2 (2002): 89-104.
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