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Engaging the Ottoman Empire : Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815 / Daniel O'Quinn.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Quinn, Daniel, Author.
- Series:
- Material texts.
- Material Texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diplomats--Turkey--History--18th century.
- Diplomats.
- Intercultural communication--Political aspects--Turkey--History--18th century.
- Intercultural communication.
- Intercultural communication--Political aspects--Europe--History--18th century.
- Turkey--Foreign relations--Europe--History--18th century.
- Turkey.
- Europe--Foreign relations--Turkey--History--18th century.
- Europe.
- Turkey--Relations--Europe--History--18th century.
- Europe--Relations--Turkey--History--18th century.
- Europe--Civilization--Turkish influences--History--18th century.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century. Richly illustrated and provocatively argued, Engaging the Ottoman Empire demonstrates that study of the Ottoman world is vital to understanding European modernity.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part I. After Peace; Chapter 1. Theatrum Pacis: Mediating the Treaty of Karlowitz; Chapter 2. A Costume Empire: Describing the Social Matrix; Chapter 3. At the Limits of Verisimilitude: Vanmour's Allegories of Social Cohesion; Chapter 4. Critical Alignments: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Classical Counter-Memory; Part II. Beside War; Chapter 5. "As Are Yet to Be Seen": The Dilettanti's Re-enchantment of the Ionian World; Chapter 6. Exoriare Aliquis: Choiseul-Gouffier's Needs and Lady Craven's Desires. Chapter 7. Narrative Fragments and Object Choices: Antiquities, War, and the Vestiges of Love. Chapter 8. Critical Disjunctions: The Intersection of Form, Affect, and Empire in Melling and Byron; Notes; Index; Acknowledgments; Plates follow page.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812295535
- 0812295536
- OCLC:
- 1143840322
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