The early modern Ottomans : remapping the Empire / edited by Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aksan, Virginia H.

Goffman, Daniel, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--History--1453-1683.

Turkey.

History.

Turkey--History--1683-1829.

Turkey--History--Mahmud II, 1808-1839.

Physical Description:

xi, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

An innovative reinterpretation of the middle years of the Ottoman Empire, from the conquest of Byzantium in 1453 to the establishment of the Tanzimat in 1839. This period saw the evolution of the Empire from the height of its powers to - as the traditional view has it - an empire in decline, unable to modernize in the face of globalization and European ascendancy. The contributors challenge this view, demonstrating how the Ottomans came to be modern on their own terms. They explore the Ottomans as politicians and diplomats, military reformers, artists and historians. They also map out and redefine the material worlds which they inhabited - the courthouse, the cemetery, the Turkish garden. This book, which represents a turning-point in the intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire, promises to become a key text for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the Ottoman world.

Contents:

Introduction : situating the early modern Ottoman world / Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman

Mapping the Ottoman world

Imagining the early modern Ottoman space, from world history to Piri Reis / Palmira Brummett

Limits to empire

Negotiating with the Renaissance state : the Ottoman empire and the new diplomacy / Daniel Goffman

Information, ideology, and limits of imperial policy : Ottoman grand strategy in the context of Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry / Gábor Ágoston

The Ottomans in the Mediterranean / Molly Greene

Military reform and its limits in a shrinking Ottoman world, 1800-1840 / Virginia H. Aksan

Evocations of sovereignty

Genre and myth in the Ottoman advice for kings literature / Douglas A. Howard

The politics of early modern Ottoman historiography / Baki Tezcan

Boundaries of belonging

Inside the Ottoman courthouse : territorial law at the intersection of state and religion / Najwa Al-Qattan

The material world : ideologies and ordinary things / Leslie Peirce

Urban voices from beyond : identity, status and social strategies in Ottoman Muslim funerary epitaphs of Istanbul (1700-1850) / Edhem Eldem

Who is a true Muslim? : exclusion and inclusion among polemicists of reform in nineteenth-century Baghdad / Dina Rizk Khoury

Aesthetics of empire

Public spaces and the garden culture of Istanbul in the eighteenth century / Shirine Hamadeh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-352) and index.

ISBN:

9780521817646

0521817641

9780521520850

0521520851

OCLC:

76828906

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