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Geographical knowledge and imperial culture in the early modern Ottoman Empire / by Pinar Emiralioğlu.

By: Emiralioğlu, M. Pinar [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700Publisher: Farnham Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014Description: xx, 184 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated | unmediated | unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volume | volume | volumeISBN: 9781472415332 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1472415337 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Geography -- Turkey -- History | Geography -- Study and teaching -- Turkey -- History | Cartography -- Turkey -- History | Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Turkey | Geografie | Imperialismus | Interkulturalität | Turkey -- Politics and government -- 16th century | Turkey -- Politics and government -- 17th century | Osmanisches ReichGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 956.1/0153 LOC classification: DR486 | .E45 2014
Contents:
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 -- Süleyman 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.
Summary: Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, travellers, astrologers, historians and naval captains promoted their vision of the world and the centrality of the Ottoman Empire in it. It proposes a new case study for the interconnections among empires in the period, demonstrating how the Ottoman Empire shared political, cultural, economic and even religious conceptual frameworks with contemporary and previous world empires.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-178) and index.

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 -- Süleyman 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.

Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, travellers, astrologers, historians and naval captains promoted their vision of the world and the centrality of the Ottoman Empire in it. It proposes a new case study for the interconnections among empires in the period, demonstrating how the Ottoman Empire shared political, cultural, economic and even religious conceptual frameworks with contemporary and previous world empires.