The Ottoman Age Of Exploration

Author : Giancarlo Casale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0199798796

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The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale Pdf

In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ideological, military and commercial challenge to the Portuguese Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade routes of maritime Asia. The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive historical account of this century-long struggle for global dominance, a struggle that raged from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of Malacca, and from the interior of Africa to the steppes of Central Asia. Based on extensive research in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as materials written on three continents and in a half dozen languages, it presents an unprecedented picture of the global reach of the Ottoman state during the sixteenth century. It does so through a dramatic recounting of the lives of sultans and viziers, spies, corsairs, soldiers-of-fortune, and women from the imperial harem. Challenging traditional narratives of Western dominance, it argues that the Ottomans were not only active participants in the Age of Exploration, but ultimately bested the Portuguese in the game of global politics by using sea power, dynastic prestige, and commercial savoir faire to create their own imperial dominion throughout the Indian Ocean.

Author : Giancarlo Casale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Indian Ocean Region
ISBN : OCLC:1392313820

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The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale Pdf

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780961224

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The Portuguese in the Age of Discovery c.1340–1665 by David Nicolle Pdf

From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first truly global empire, stretching from modern Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and from India to the East Indies (Indonesia). Portugal had established its present-day borders by 1300 and the following century saw extensive warfare that confirmed Portugal's independence and allowed it to aspire to maritime expansion, sponsored by monarchs such as Prince Henry the Navigator. During this nearly 300-year period, the Portuguese fought alongside other Iberian forces against the Moors of Andalusia; with English help successfully repelled a Castilian invasion (1385); fought the Moors in Morocco, and Africans, the Ottoman Turks, and the Spanish in colonial competition. The colourful and exotic Portuguese forces that prevailed in these battles on land and sea are the subject of this book.

Author : Marc David Baer
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541673779

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The Ottomans by Marc David Baer Pdf

This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War. The Ottomans vividly reveals the dynasty’s full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world.

Author : Asst Prof Pinar Emiralioglu
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1472415337

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Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire by Asst Prof Pinar Emiralioglu Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004407671

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Empires of the Sea by Anonim Pdf

Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.

Author : Palmira Brummett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107090774

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Mapping the Ottomans by Palmira Brummett Pdf

This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.

Author : Giancarlo L. Casale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Indian Ocean
ISBN : OCLC:179639088

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The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo L. Casale Pdf

Author : Nabil Matar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231505710

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Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery by Nabil Matar Pdf

During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in Moroccan or Tunisian harbor towns, joined the international community of pirates in Mediterranean and Atlantic outposts, served in Algerian households and ships, and endured captivity from Salee to Alexandria and from Fez to Mocha. In Turks, Moors, and Englishmen, Nabil Matar vividly presents new data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. Rather than looking exclusively at literary works, which tended to present unidimensional stereotypes of Muslims—Shakespeare's "superstitious Moor" or Goffe's "raging Turke," to name only two—Matar delves into hitherto unexamined English prison depositions, captives' memoirs, government documents, and Arabic chronicles and histories. The result is a significant alternative to the prevailing discourse on Islam, which nearly always centers around ethnocentrism and attempts at dominance over the non-Western world, and an astonishing revelation about the realities of exchange and familiarity between England and Muslim society in the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. Concurrent with England's engagement and "discovery" of the Muslims was the "discovery" of the American Indians. In an original analysis, Matar shows how Hakluyt and Purchas taught their readers not only about America but about the Muslim dominions, too; how there were more reasons for Britons to venture eastward than westward; and how, in the period under study, more Englishmen lived in North Africa than in North America. Although Matar notes the sharp political and colonial differences between the English encounter with the Muslims and their encounter with the Indians, he shows how Elizabethan and Stuart writers articulated Muslim in terms of Indian, and Indian in terms of Muslim. By superimposing the sexual constructions of the Indians onto the Muslims, and by applying to them the ideology of holy war which had legitimated the destruction of the Indians, English writers prepared the groundwork for orientalism and for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conquest of Mediterranean Islam. Matar's detailed research provides a new direction in the study of England's geographic imagination. It also illuminates the subtleties and interchangeability of stereotype, racism, and demonization that must be taken into account in any responsible depiction of English history.

Author : Andrew C. S. Peacock,Annabel Teh Gallop
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0197265812

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From Anatolia to Aceh by Andrew C. S. Peacock,Annabel Teh Gallop Pdf

"Southeast Asia has long been connected by trade, religion and political links to the wider world across the Indian Ocean, and especially to the Middle East through the faith of Islam. However, little attention has been paid to the ties between Muslim Southeast Asia - encompassing the modern nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and the southern parts of Thailand and the Philippines - and the greatest Middle Eastern power, the Ottoman empire. The first direct political contact took place in the 16th century, when Ottoman records confirm that gunners and gunsmiths were sent to Aceh in Sumatra to help fight against the Portuguese domination of the pepper trade. In the intervening centuries, the main conduit for contact between was the annual Hajj pilgrimage, and many Malay pilgrims from Southeast Asia spent long periods of study in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which were under Ottoman control from 1517 until the early 20th century. During the period of European colonial expansion in the 19th century, once again Malay states turned to Istanbul for help. It now appears that these demands for intervention from Southeast Asia may even have played an important role in the development of the Ottoman policy of Pan-Islamism, positioning the Ottoman emperor as Caliph and leader of Muslims worldwide and promoting Muslim solidarity. The papers in this volume represent the first attempt to bring together research on all aspects of the relationship between the Ottoman world and Southeast Asia - political, economic, religious and intellectual - much of it based on documents newly discovered in archives in Istanbul"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Veli Yadirgi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107181236

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The Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey by Veli Yadirgi Pdf

An examination of the link between the economic and political development of the Kurds in Turkey, and Turkey's Kurdish question.

Author : Onur Inal,Yavuz Köse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912186810

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Seeds of Power by Onur Inal,Yavuz Köse Pdf

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501722332

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Trading Territories by Jerry Brotton Pdf

In this generously illustrated book, Jerry Brotton documents the dramatic changes in the nature of geographical representation which took place during the sixteenth century, explaining how much they convey about the transformation of European culture at the end of the early modern era. He examines the age's fascination with maps, charts, and globes as both texts and artifacts that provided their owners with a promise of gain, be it intellectual, political, or financial. From the Middle Ages through most of the sixteenth century, Brotton argues, mapmakers deliberately exploited the partial, often conflicting accounts of geographically distant territories to create imaginary worlds. As long as the lands remained inaccessible, these maps and globes were politically compelling. They bolstered the authority of the imperial patrons who employed the geographers and integrated their creations into ever more grandiose rhetorics of expansion. As the century progressed, however, geographers increasingly owed allegiance to the administrators of vast joint-stock companies that sought to exploit faraway lands and required the systematic mapping of commercially strategic territories. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, maps had begun to serve instead as scientific guides, defining objectively valid images of the world.

Author : Myriam Ababsa
Publisher : Presses de l’Ifpo
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9782351594384

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Atlas of Jordan by Myriam Ababsa Pdf

This atlas aims to provide the reader with key pointers for a spatial analysis of the social, economic and political dynamics at work in Jordan, an exemplary country of the Middle East complexities. Being a product of seven years of scientific cooperation between Ifpo, the Royal Jordanian Geographic Center and the University of Jordan, it includes the contributions of 48 European, Jordanian and International researchers. A long historical part followed by sections on demography, economy, social disparities, urban challenges and major town and country planning, sheds light on the formation of Jordanian territories over time. Jordan has always been looked on as an exception in the Middle East due to the political stability that has prevailed since the country’s Independence in 1946, despite the challenge of integrating several waves of Palestinian, Iraqi and - more recently - Syrian refugees. Thanks to this stability and the peace accord signed with Israel in 1994, Jordan is one of the first countries in the world for development aid per capita.

Author : Yaron Ayalon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107072978

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Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire by Yaron Ayalon Pdf

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire's history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.