Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1107090776
ISBN13:9781107090774
Release Date:May 2015
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:398 Pages
Weight:1.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.1" x 10.0"
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