John-Paul Ghobrial, The Whispers of Cities: Information Flows in Istanbul, London and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 208 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-967241-7
Journal: Osmanlı Araştırmaları
Year: 2015

There are a significant number of books written about how early modern Europe perceived the Ottoman Empire, i.e., what decision-makers, scientists, artists, authors and the common people knew about this exotic land whose “otherness” played a great role in the shaping of Europe itself. John-Paul Ghobrial takes a more innovative approach to the issue of encounters between the “East” and the “West” when he shifts his focus from what people living in Europe knew about Ottoman Empire to how they actu