Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850 by Paula Sutter FichtnerReaktion Books | February 2008 | ISBN: 186189340X | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB (including 3 bonus books in RAR file)
Many negative stereotypes of Muslims can be traced to the clashes between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. Paula Sutter Fichtner explores here the particular dynamics between the Ottoman and Austrian Habsburg empires and chronicles the evolution of a political relationship that shifted from hatred to understanding.