Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Abstract

This book consists of an introduction entitled ‘Eye of the World: Textual and Visual Repertoires of the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire’; four chapters entitled respectively ‘Negotiating Space and Imperial Ideology in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire’, ‘Mapping and Describing Ottoman Constantinople’, Charting the Mediterranean: The Ottoman Grand Strategy’ and ‘Projecting the Frontiers of the Known World’ and an epilogue entitled ‘Ottoman Geographical Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century’.