Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Ashgate
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781472415332
Subjects: Geography, study and teaching; Cartography, history; Imperialism; Turkey, politics and government
Description: 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.