Mapping the Ottomans : sovereignty, territory, and identity in the early modern Mediterranean / Palmira Brummett.
"Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation and the rise of Europe in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which European mapping envisioned the "Turks" in image and narrative. Rather, maps, travel accounts, compendia of knowledge, and other texts crea...
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New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: mapping empire and 'Turks' on the map
- Reading and placing the "Turk"
- Borders : the edge of Europe, the ends of empire, and the redemption of Christendom
- Sovereign space : the fortress as marker of possession
- Heads and skins : mapping the fallen Turk
- From Venice and Vienna to Istanbul : the travel space between Christendom and Islam
- Authority, travel, and the map
- Afterword : mapping the fault lines of empire and nation.