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

Other author Aksan, Virginia H.
Other author Goffman, Daniel, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxi, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Subjects

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.
Local noteLittle-358328--305131063706Z
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-352) and index.
LCCN 2006039241
ISBN9780521817646 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0521817641 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780521520850 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0521520851 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks DR501 .E27 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold