Mapping the Ottomans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Ottomans write by Palmira Brummett. This book was released on 2015-05-19. Mapping the Ottomans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mapping the Ottomans
Mapping the Ottomans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Ottomans write by Palmira Brummett. This book was released on 2015-05-19. Mapping the Ottomans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.
Mapping the Ottomans
Mapping the Ottomans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Ottomans write by Palmira Johnson Brummett. This book was released on 2015. Mapping the Ottomans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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"--
Ottoman Explorations of the Nile
Ottoman Explorations of the Nile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ottoman Explorations of the Nile write by Robert Dankoff. This book was released on 2018-02-15. Ottoman Explorations of the Nile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before the time of Napoleon, the most ambitious effort to explore and map the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 475 rubrics, and a lengthy travel account. Both were achieved at about the same time—c. 1685—and both by the same man. Evliya Çelebi’s account of his Nile journeys, in the tenth volume of his Book of Travels (Seyahatname), has been known to the scholarly world since 1938, when that volume was first published. The map, held in the Vatican Library, has been studied since at least 1949. Numerous new critical editions of both the map and the text have been published over the years, each expounding upon the last in an attempt to reach a definitive version. The Ottoman Explorations of the Nile provides a more accurate translation of the original travel account. Furthermore, the maps themselves are reproduced in greater detail and vivid color, and there are more cross-references to the text than in any previous edition. This volume gives equal weight and attention to the two parts that make up this extraordinary historical document, allowing readers to study the map or the text independently, while also using each to elucidate and accentuate the details of the other.
Trading Territories
Trading Territories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trading Territories write by Jerry Brotton. This book was released on 2020-06-30. Trading Territories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this generously illustrated book, Jerry Brotton documents the dramatic changes in the nature of geographical representation which took place during the sixteenth century, explaining how much they convey about the transformation of European culture at the end of the early modern era. He examines the age's fascination with maps, charts, and globes as both texts and artifacts that provided their owners with a promise of gain, be it intellectual, political, or financial. From the Middle Ages through most of the sixteenth century, Brotton argues, mapmakers deliberately exploited the partial, often conflicting accounts of geographically distant territories to create imaginary worlds. As long as the lands remained inaccessible, these maps and globes were politically compelling. They bolstered the authority of the imperial patrons who employed the geographers and integrated their creations into ever more grandiose rhetorics of expansion. As the century progressed, however, geographers increasingly owed allegiance to the administrators of vast joint-stock companies that sought to exploit faraway lands and required the systematic mapping of commercially strategic territories. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, maps had begun to serve instead as scientific guides, defining objectively valid images of the world.
