Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4724-1533-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

Reihe: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, travellers, astrologers, historians and naval captains promoted their vision of the world and the centrality of the Ottoman Empire in it. It proposes a new case study for the interconnections among empires in the period, demonstrating how the Ottoman Empire shared political, cultural, economic, and even religious conceptual frameworks with contemporary and previous world empires.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emiralioglu, Pinar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, List of Plates, List of Maps, List of Abbreviations, Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Pronunciation, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Eye of the World: Textual and Visual Repertoires of the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, 1 Negotiating Space and Imperial Ideology in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, 2 Mapping and Describing Ottoman Constantinople, 3 Charting the Mediterranean: The Ottoman Grand Strategy, 4 Projecting the Frontiers of the Known World, Epilogue: Ottoman Geographical Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

M. Pinar Emiralioglu is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, USA.