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Mapping the Ottomans
Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Simple paradigms of Muslim–Christian confrontation and the rise of Europe
in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which Euro-
pean mapping envisioned the “Turks” in image and narrative. Rather, maps,
travel accounts, compendia of knowledge, and other texts created a picture
of the Ottoman Empire through a complex layering of history, ethnography,
and eyewitness testimony, which juxtaposed current events to classical and
Biblical history; counted space in terms of peoples, routes, and fortresses;
and used the land and seascapes of the map to assert ownership, declare
victory, and embody imperial power’s reach. Enriched throughout by exam-
ples of Ottoman self-mapping, this book examines how Ottomans and their
empire were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern
Europe’s Christian kingdoms. The maps serve as centerpieces for discussions
of early modern space, time, borders, stages of travel, information flows,
invocations of authority, and cross-cultural relations.
Palmira Brummett is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Ten-
nessee, where she was Distinguished Professor of Humanities, and Visiting
Professor of History at Brown University. Her publications include
Ottoman
Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery
(1994);
Image
and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908–1911
(2000);
The ‘Book’ of Travels: Genre, Ethnology and Pilgrimage, 1250–1700
(2009),
for which she was the editor and a contributor; and
Civilizations Past and
Present
(2000–2005), for which she was the co-author of multiple editions.
She has also written numerous articles on Ottoman, Mediterranean, and
world history. She has been the recipient of NEH and ACLS fellowships, a
Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Award for Scholarly Achievement, and a Bunting
Fellowship at Radcliff University.
“Moving beyond the simple cataloguing of European images of the
Ottoman other that has characterized previous scholarship, Palmira
Brummett shows the nuanced and diverse range of European responses
to the Ottomans, as well as illustrating Ottoman self-mapping practices
and the ways in which both emerged from a set of shared precedents
and fit into a common early modern cartographic culture.
Mapping
the Ottomans
is an essential addition to the rich body of literature on
early modern maps, as well as to our growing understanding of the
complex and interconnected character of early modern European and
the Mediterranean worlds.”
– Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University
“Palmira Brummett’s nuanced account goes well beyond cartography to
provide a rich history of how Western Europe viewed Ottoman space.
This illuminating study demonstrates how texts and maps together
shaped an imaginary of the borderlines between Asia and Europe, Islam,
and Christianity. Brummett’s focus on perceptions of space renders
the maps she discusses as richly layered and interconnected objects,
fully embedded in broader rhetorical, iconographic, and historiographic
traditions.”
– Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles
For Jim, again.
And in gratitude for the fellowship of the Folger Institute,
where this book took shape.
Mapping the Ottomans
Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the
Early Modern Mediterranean
Palmira Brummett

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