Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Yıl 2016, Cilt: 48 Sayı: 48, 456 - 460, 27.07.2016

Gregory C. Mcıntosh

https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.588168

Öz

This book is about more than merely maps. The “mapping” in the title encompasses more than making drawings of coastlines, rivers, mountains, and cities on flat sheets of paper. Beyond delineating, mapping is also an activity of appropriating, compartmentalizing, characterizing, representing, and misrepresenting. This is particularly true of the representation of the European ideas of the Ottoman Turks – the “Other” – in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The ways in which these commercial, diplomatic, military, and personal perceptions were recorded by Europeans in their maps and travel narratives are closely scrutinized in this well-written and richly-illustrated study of Early Modern cartography, iconography, and rhetoric. One-hundred and twenty-eight maps are reproduced and examined. The symbolic images used on the maps are disclosed. The messages encoded in the images are identified. How the images are manipulated to convey the messages is revealed.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Mapping, Ottomans, Sovereignty

Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Öz

This book is about more than merely maps. The “mapping” in the title encompasses more than making drawings of coastlines, rivers, mountains, and cities
on flat sheets of paper. Beyond delineating, mapping is also an activity of appropriating, compartmentalizing, characterizing, representing, and misrepresenting. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

Palmira Brummett, Mapping the Ottomans, Sovereignty, Territory, Identity

Kaynakça

• Palmira Brummett, Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, xviii + 365 pages, 113 b/w illus., 15 colour plates, ISBN: 978-110-7090-77-4.