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The early modern Ottomans : remapping the Empire / edited by Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman.

Contributor(s): Aksan, Virginia H | Goffman, Daniel, 1954-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. Description: xi, 363 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521817646 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0521817641 (hbk. : alk. paper); 9780521520850 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0521520851 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Turkey -- History -- 1453-1683 | Turkey -- History -- 1683-1829 | Turkey -- History -- Mahmud II, 1808-1839DDC classification: 956/.015 LOC classification: DR501 | .E27 2007
Contents:
Introduction : situating the early modern Ottoman world / Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman -- Mapping the Ottoman world -- Imagining the early modern Ottoman space, from world history to Piri Reis / Palmira Brummett -- Limits to empire -- Negotiating with the Renaissance state : the Ottoman empire and the new diplomacy / Daniel Goffman -- Information, ideology, and limits of imperial policy : Ottoman grand strategy in the context of Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry / Gábor Ágoston -- The Ottomans in the Mediterranean / Molly Greene -- Military reform and its limits in a shrinking Ottoman world, 1800-1840 / Virginia H. Aksan -- Evocations of sovereignty -- Genre and myth in the Ottoman advice for kings literature / Douglas A. Howard -- The politics of early modern Ottoman historiography / Baki Tezcan -- Boundaries of belonging -- Inside the Ottoman courthouse : territorial law at the intersection of state and religion / Najwa Al-Qattan -- The material world : ideologies and ordinary things / Leslie Peirce -- Urban voices from beyond : identity, status and social strategies in Ottoman Muslim funerary epitaphs of Istanbul (1700-1850) / Edhem Eldem -- Who is a true Muslim? : exclusion and inclusion among polemicists of reform in nineteenth-century Baghdad / Dina Rizk Khoury -- Aesthetics of empire -- Public spaces and the garden culture of Istanbul in the eighteenth century / Shirine Hamadeh.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-352) and index.

Introduction : situating the early modern Ottoman world / Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman -- Mapping the Ottoman world -- Imagining the early modern Ottoman space, from world history to Piri Reis / Palmira Brummett -- Limits to empire -- Negotiating with the Renaissance state : the Ottoman empire and the new diplomacy / Daniel Goffman -- Information, ideology, and limits of imperial policy : Ottoman grand strategy in the context of Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry / Gábor Ágoston -- The Ottomans in the Mediterranean / Molly Greene -- Military reform and its limits in a shrinking Ottoman world, 1800-1840 / Virginia H. Aksan -- Evocations of sovereignty -- Genre and myth in the Ottoman advice for kings literature / Douglas A. Howard -- The politics of early modern Ottoman historiography / Baki Tezcan -- Boundaries of belonging -- Inside the Ottoman courthouse : territorial law at the intersection of state and religion / Najwa Al-Qattan -- The material world : ideologies and ordinary things / Leslie Peirce -- Urban voices from beyond : identity, status and social strategies in Ottoman Muslim funerary epitaphs of Istanbul (1700-1850) / Edhem Eldem -- Who is a true Muslim? : exclusion and inclusion among polemicists of reform in nineteenth-century Baghdad / Dina Rizk Khoury -- Aesthetics of empire -- Public spaces and the garden culture of Istanbul in the eighteenth century / Shirine Hamadeh.