The early modern Ottomans : remapping the Empire /
Aksan, Virginia H.
Goffman, Daniel,1954-
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-352) and index.
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.