Ottoman seapower and Levantine diplomacy in the age of discovery / Palmira Johnson Brummett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brummett, Palmira Johnson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--Commerce.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2018.

Summary:

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 conquest, Brummett portrays it as inheritor of Euro-Asian trading networks and participant in the contest for commercial hegemony from Genoa and Venice to the Indian Ocean. Brummett shows that the development of seapower was crucial to this endeavor, enabling the Ottomans to subordinate both Venice and the Mamluk kingdom to dependency relationships and providing the Ottoman ruling class access to commercial investment and wealth.

Contents:

The physical and historiographic space

The Western salient : Venice, Ismail Safavi, and Europe

The Eastern salient : Ismail Safavi and the Mamluks

Ottoman naval development

The Aegean, the Mediterranean, and the grain trade

Trade on the Eastern salient

The Ottoman economic mind in the context of world power.

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