Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean

by Palmira Johnson Brummett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107090776
• ISBN13: 9781107090774
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 10.0"