Mapping the Ottomans : sovereignty, territory, and identity in the early modern Mediterranean / Palmira Brummett.
2015
GA1303.5.A1 B78 2015 (Mapit)
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Mapping the Ottomans : sovereignty, territory, and identity in the early modern Mediterranean / Palmira Brummett.
ISBN
9781107090774 hardcover
1107090776 hardcover
9781107462953 paperback
1107462959 paperback
1107090776 hardcover
9781107462953 paperback
1107462959 paperback
Published
New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 365 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Call Number
GA1303.5.A1 B78 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
526.0956
Summary
"Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation and the rise of Europe in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which European mapping envisioned the "Turks" in image and narrative. Rather, maps, travel accounts, compendia of knowledge, and other texts created a picture of the Ottoman Empire through a complex layering of history, ethnography, and eyewitness testimony, which juxtaposed current events to classical and biblical history; counted space in terms of peoples, routes, and fortresses; and used the land and seascapes of the map to assert ownership, declare victory, and embody imperial power's reach. Enriched throughout by examples of Ottoman self-mapping, this book examines how Ottomans and their empire were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms. The maps serve as centerpieces for discussions of early modern space, time, borders, stages of travel, information flows, invocations of authority, and cross-cultural relations"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book examines how the Ottomans and their empire were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of the Christian kingdoms of early modern Europe. Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation and the 'rise' of Europe in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which European mapping envisioned the "Turks" in image and narrative. Rather, maps, travel accounts, compendia of knowledge, and other texts created a picture of the Ottoman empire through a complex layering of history, ethnography, and eyewitness testimony which juxtaposed current events to classical and Biblical history; counted space in terms of peoples, routes, and fortresses; and used the land and seascapes of the map to assert ownership, declare victory, and embody the reach of imperial power. Maps here serve as centerpieces for a discussion of early modern space, time, borders, stages of travel, information flows, invocations of authority, and cross-cultural relations. The book is enriched throughout by examples of Ottoman self-mapping"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book examines how the Ottomans and their empire were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of the Christian kingdoms of early modern Europe. Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation and the 'rise' of Europe in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which European mapping envisioned the "Turks" in image and narrative. Rather, maps, travel accounts, compendia of knowledge, and other texts created a picture of the Ottoman empire through a complex layering of history, ethnography, and eyewitness testimony which juxtaposed current events to classical and Biblical history; counted space in terms of peoples, routes, and fortresses; and used the land and seascapes of the map to assert ownership, declare victory, and embody the reach of imperial power. Maps here serve as centerpieces for a discussion of early modern space, time, borders, stages of travel, information flows, invocations of authority, and cross-cultural relations. The book is enriched throughout by examples of Ottoman self-mapping"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: mapping empire and 'Turks' on the map
Reading and placing the "Turk"
Borders : the edge of Europe, the ends of empire, and the redemption of Christendom
Sovereign space : the fortress as marker of possession
Heads and skins : mapping the fallen Turk
From Venice and Vienna to Istanbul : the travel space between Christendom and Islam
Authority, travel, and the map
Afterword : mapping the fault lines of empire and nation.
Reading and placing the "Turk"
Borders : the edge of Europe, the ends of empire, and the redemption of Christendom
Sovereign space : the fortress as marker of possession
Heads and skins : mapping the fallen Turk
From Venice and Vienna to Istanbul : the travel space between Christendom and Islam
Authority, travel, and the map
Afterword : mapping the fault lines of empire and nation.