This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.
Enriched throughout by examples 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.
This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750, explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical...
This volume gives equal weight and attention to the two parts that make up this extraordinary historical document, allowing readers to study the map or the text independently, while also using each to elucidate and accentuate the details of ...
In this generously illustrated book, Jerry Brotton documents the dramatic changes in the nature of geographical representation which took place during the sixteenth century, explaining how much they convey about the transformation of ...
Mapping the Middle East explores the many ways people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus River Valleys over the past millennium.
... the Oriental languages in a renowned and crowded audience of Utrecht two days before the Nonae [7th] of October, 1643]. Ultraiecti/Utrecht: Joannes Waesberge. Ravius, Christian 1643b. Panegyrica secunda orientalibus linguis dicta in ...
Ottoman Cartography
A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923
The government press in Baghdad printed leaflets in Hindi and Urdu calling on Indian Muslims to abandon the “army of ... About two miles behind the front line, another wellconstructed set of trenches defined the Turkish second line.
Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship.