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The Ottoman age of exploration / Giancarlo Casale.

By: Casale, GiancarloMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. Description: xix, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780195377828 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0195377826 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Navigation -- Turkey -- History -- 16th century | Turkey -- History -- 16th century | Indian Ocean Region -- Discovery and exploration -- Turkish | Turkey -- Commerce -- History -- 16th centuryDDC classification: 910.9182/409031 LOC classification: DR507 | .C37 2010
Contents:
Introduction : an empire of the mind -- Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 -- Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance : 1520-1536 -- Hadim Suleiman Pasha's world war : 1536-1546 -- Rustem Pasha versus the Indian Ocean faction : 1546-1561 -- Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the apogee of empire : 1561-1579 -- A man, a plan, a canal : Mir Ali Beg's expeditions to the Swahili coast : 1579-1589 -- The death of politics.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 62 - Reading Room 		H2n CASAL 27744 Not for loan BOOKS*000000020652

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : an empire of the mind -- Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 -- Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance : 1520-1536 -- Hadim Suleiman Pasha's world war : 1536-1546 -- Rustem Pasha versus the Indian Ocean faction : 1546-1561 -- Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the apogee of empire : 1561-1579 -- A man, a plan, a canal : Mir Ali Beg's expeditions to the Swahili coast : 1579-1589 -- The death of politics.