Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery

by Palmira Johnson Brummett

Book Overview

This work reframes sixteenth-century history, incorporating the Ottoman empire more thoroughly into European, Asian and world history. It analyzes the Ottoman Empire's expansion eastward in the contexts of claims to universal sovereignty, Levantine power politics, and the struggle for control of the oriental trade. Challenging the notion that the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire was merely a reactive economic entity driven by the impulse to territorial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791417026
• ISBN13: 9780791417027
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"