Geographical knowledge and imperial culture in the early modern Ottoman Empire
| 1. Verfasser: |
Emiralioǧlu, M. Pınar
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2014.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xx, 184 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Eye of the world: textual and visual repertoires of the sixteenth century Ottoman Empire
- Negotiating space and the formation of imperial ideology in the sixteenth- century Ottoman Empire
- Selim I and the formation of Ottoman imperial ideology
- Selim's world: the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
- A renaissance of Ottoman geographical consciousness
- Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman "grand project"
- Ibrahim Pasha and consolidation of the imperial enterprise
- Ottoman canonical geography
- A somber image and a sober policy
- Ottoman discovery of the new worlds
- Closure of the sixteenth century: the Ottoman imperial image challenged
- Boundaries of the Ottoman world and Ottoman geographical knowledge
- Mapping and describing Ottoman Constantinople
- Where is the new Rome?
- All roads lead to Constantinople: the new Rome in pre-Ottoman geographical traditions
- Mehmed the Conqueror: Constantinople as the center of the empire
- Ptolemy's Geographia and Mehmed's empire
- Bayezid II and Selim I: Constantinople in the age of discovery
- Constantinople in Ottoman canonical geography
- Charting the Mediterranean: the Ottoman grand strategy
- Ottoman-Spanish imperial conflict in the age of discovery
- The Spanish Habsburgs and official cartography
- Piri Reis and official cartography in the Ottoman empire
- Mediterranean cartography: charting the core of the world
- Projecting the frontiers of the known world
- India and the Indian Ocean: Ottoman peripheries to the east
- India and the Indian Ocean in sixteenth century Ottoman geographical knowledge
- The new world: Ottoman peripheries to the west
- Epilogue Ottoman geographical knowledge in the long eighteenth century.
