Ottoman seapower and Levantine diplomacy in the age of discovery
This work reframes sixteenth-century history, incorporating the Ottoman empire more thoroughly into European, Asian and world history. It analyzes the Ottoman Empire's expansion eastward in the contexts of claims to universal sovereignty, Levantine power politics, and the struggle for control o...
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Albany, NY
State University of New York Press
[1994]
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| Series: | SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Physical and Historiographic Space
- The Western Salient: Venice, Ismail Safavi, and Europe
- The Eastern Salient: Ismail Safavi and the Mamluks
- Ottoman Naval Development
- The Aegean, the Mediterranean, and the Grain Trade
- Trade on the Eastern Salient
- Conclusion: The Ottoman Economic Mind in the Context of World Power