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The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It - Course Information

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XII ~ THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE WORLD AROUND IT ~<br />

put out by Yapı ve Kredi Yayınları: my heartiest thanks. Vera Costantini has generously<br />

provided information on <strong>the</strong> Cyprus war, but perhaps more importantly,<br />

contributed much through her laughter <strong>and</strong> love of life.<br />

In addition, <strong>the</strong>re are <strong>the</strong> people who have read <strong>the</strong> manuscript <strong>and</strong> tried very<br />

hard to make it into a better book; if I did not take all of <strong>the</strong>ir excellent advice, I<br />

have no one to blame but myself. Apart from an anonymous reader, whose incisive<br />

criticisms I have done my special best to take into account, I extend my<br />

warmest thanks to Virginia Aksan, Robert Dankoff, Christopher Hann <strong>and</strong> Ildikó<br />

Béller-Hann, Leslie Peirce, Gilles Veinstein <strong>and</strong> above all, Christoph Neumann,<br />

whose patience has been almost without limits. At I. B. Tauris, Lester Crook has<br />

been a most underst<strong>and</strong>ing editor, providing tea <strong>and</strong> endless sympathy when<br />

accommodating my intrusions <strong>and</strong> listening to my follies. All <strong>the</strong>se people have<br />

made time in <strong>the</strong>ir busy schedules in order to respond to me <strong>and</strong> my queries, <strong>and</strong><br />

I can only hope that <strong>the</strong>y will find <strong>the</strong> results acceptable at least to some degree.

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