Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Authors : Kaan ÜÇSU

Pages : 78-80

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Publication Date : 2015-06-01

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :This book consists of an introduction entitled ‘Eye of the World: Textual and Visual Repertoires of the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire’; four chapters entitled respectively ‘Negotiating Space and Imperial Ideology in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire’, ‘Mapping and Describing Ottoman Constantinople’, Charting the Mediterranean: The Ottoman Grand Strategy’ and ‘Projecting the Frontiers of the Known World’ and an epilogue entitled ‘Ottoman Geographical Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century’.
Keywords : Geographical, Imperial, Culture