Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of DiscoveryThis 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 of the oriental trade. Challenging the notion that the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire was merely a reactive economic entity driven by the impulse to territorial conquest, Brummett portrays it as inheritor of Euro-Asian trading networks and participant in the contest for commercial hegemony from Genoa and Venice to the Indian Ocean. Brummett shows that the development of seapower was crucial to this endeavor, enabling the Ottomans to subordinate both Venice and the Mamluk kingdom to dependency relationships and providing the Ottoman ruling class access to commercial investment and wealth. |
Contents
Introduction The Physical and Historiographic Space | 1 |
The Ottomans and Levantine Foreign Policy | 21 |
The Western Salient Venice Ismail Safavi and Europe | 27 |
The Eastern Salient Ismail Safavi and the Mamluks | 51 |
Ottoman Naval Development | 89 |
Traders Trade Goods and Trade Zones | 123 |
The Aegean the Mediterranean and the Grain Trade | 131 |
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Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery Palmira Johnson Brummett Limited preview - 1994 |
Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery Palmira Brummett Limited preview - 1993 |
Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery Palmira Johnson Brummett No preview available - 1994 |
Common terms and phrases
Aegean Ahsan Ak Koyunlu al-Ghūrī Alā Ala ad-Dawla Aleppo Alexandria alliance ambassador armada army artillery Ashtor askeri attack Bada'i bailo Basımevi Bayezid Bayezid II Beirut Bursa Cairo campaign commercial conquest copper customs Damascus demand Diarii diplomacy diplomatic Diyarbakr ducats early sixteenth eastern Anatolia eastern Mediterranean economic Egypt Euro-Asian European force frontier galleys governor grain trade hegemony Ibid Ibn Iyas Indian Ocean Iran Islam Ismail Safavi Istanbul Iyās Jidda Karamanid Kemal Kemal Reis Korkud Levant Levantine loads Mamluk sultan Mamluk territories military muda Muslim Mustafa navy negotiations Osmanlı Otto Ottoman Empire Ottoman expansion Ottoman naval Ottoman sultan Ottoman-Venetian Pasha Persian political Porte Portuguese Qānsüh Red Sea revenues revolt Rhodes Rhodian routes ruler Safavid sailed Sanuto Selim sent Shah ships silk trade sixteenth century spice trade Suez Süleiman Syria Tarih threat tion toman troops tuguese Türk University Press Venetian merchants Venice Venice's zone Zū al-Kadr