Mapping the Ottomans : sovereignty, territory, and identity in the early modern Mediterranean / Palmira Brummett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brummett, Palmira Johnson, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Turkey--History--17th century.

Cartography.

Cartography--Europe--History--17th century.

Religion and geography.

Christianity and other religions--Islam--History.

Christianity and other religions.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--History.

Islam.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 365 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-316-28963-X

1-316-31027-2

1-316-32365-X

1-316-33033-8

1-316-33367-1

1-316-32699-3

1-107-46295-9

1-316-11731-6

1-316-32029-4