Book | Mapping the Ottomans

Mavi Boncuk | Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Palmira Brummett[1]

Cambridge University Press, May 19, 2015 | ISBN 1316300250, 9781316300251History

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. 


Contents
Names in Palestine Historie of the Holy Warre plate 1
DellAntico Col Moderno Archipelago detail Isolario 17
7 23
ordine delle due potente armate Christiana 29
Reading and Placing the Turk 43
ou Nouvelle Introduction a lHistoire 3rd ed v 51
Borders 75
Sovereign Space 128
Heads and Skins 187
From Venice and Vienna to Istanbul 239
Authority Travel and the Map 277
Afterword 325
Index 359

[1] Palmira Brummett is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Tennessee, where she was Distinguished Professor of Humanities, and Visiting Professor of History at Brown University. Her publications include Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery (1994); Image and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908–1911 (2000); The 'Book' of Travels: Genre, Ethnology and Pilgrimage, 1250–1700 (2009), for which she was the editor and a contributor; and Civilizations Past and Present (2000–5), for which she was the coauthor of multiple editions. She has also written numerous articles on Ottoman, Mediterranean, and world history. She has been the recipient of NEH and ACLS fellowships, a Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Award for Scholarly Achievement, and a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliff University.