The Ottomans and Overseas Expansion
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Discussion topics
· Did increased contact with extra-European peoples reinforce or undermine the fundamental cultural assumptions of Europeans?
· Assess the political implications of European expansion in the early modern period.
· What was the impact of overseas expansion on European society at large?
· Compare and contrast the voyages of discovery made by Europeans with those made by the Chinese and the Ottomans.
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Christopher Columbus, letter to the King and Queen of Spain |
Theodor de Bry (1634), Indians of North America woodcuts WebsiteThe British Library: Turning the Pages |
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Primary Literature
- P. Mancall (ed.), Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery (2006)
Secondary literature
a) The Ottomans
- G. Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration (2010)
- A. Cirakman, From the "Terror of the World" to the "Sick Man of Europe": European Images of Ottoman Empire and Society from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century (2002)
- S. N. Faroqhi (ed.), Cambridge History of Turkey, vols 2-3: 1453-1839 (2006-)
- S. Faroqhi, The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it (2005)
- S. Faroqhi, Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (2000)
- C. Finkel, Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 (2006)
- S. Fischer-Galati, Ottoman Imperialism and German Protestantism, 1521-55 (1959)
- D. Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (2000)
- A.C. Hess, ‘The Ottoman conquest of Egypt (1517) and the sixteenth-century world war’,
International Journal of Middle East Studies 4 (1973) - “ , The Forgotten Frontier (1978)
- C. Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1600. The Structure of Power (2002)
- H. Inalcik, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 (1973)
- M. Kunt & C. Woodhead, Süleyman the Magnificent and his Age (1995)
- R. Murphey, ‘Süleyman I and the conquest of Hungary’, JEMH 5 (2001)
- A. Stiles, The Ottoman Empire 1450-1700 (1989)
- A. Wheatcroft, The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe (2009)
- C. Woodhead, ‘Consolidating the Empire: New Views on Ottoman History 1453-1839’, EHR 123 (2008)
b) Overseas Expansion
- Representations 33, Special Edition: The New World (1991)
- U. Bitterli, Cultures in Conflict. Encounters Between European & Non-European Cultures 1492-1800 (1989)
- G. Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration (2010)
- A.W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972)
- A. Disney (ed.), Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1450-1800 (1995)
- J.H. Elliott, The Old World and the New 1492-1650 (1970)
- “ , Spain, Europe and the Atlantic World (1995)
- Robert Finlay, 'How Not to (Re)Write World History: Gavin Menzies and the Chinese Discovery of America', Journal of World History, 15/2 (2004)
- P.M. Garber, Famous first bubbles :the fundamentals of early manias (2000)
- A. Grafton, New Worlds, Ancient Texts. The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (1992)
- R. Houston, ‘The Economies of Europe and the Wider World’, in: Cameron (ed.), Early Modern Europe (1999)
- K.O. Kupperman (ed.), America in European Consciousness 1493-1750 (1995)
- U. Lamb (ed.), The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed (1995)
- B. Lewis, Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (1995)
- A. McFarlane, The British in the Americas, 1480-1815 (1994)
- J.F. Moran, The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan (1993)
- A. Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian & the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (1982)
- “ , ‘The Impact of the New World on the Old’, Renaissance and Modern Studies 30 (1986)
- “ , ‘Text and experience in the writings of Bartolomé de las Casas’, Representations 33 (1991)
- “ , ‘Fabricating identity in Spanish America’, History Today 42 (May 1992)
- “ , European Encounters with the New World (1993)
- “ , ‘Europe and the World Around’ in Cameron (ed.), Early Modern Europe
- J.H. Parry, The Age of Reconaissance. Discovery, Exploration and Settlement 1450 to 1650 (1981)
- P. Provost-Smith, Holy War, Just War: Early Modern Christianity, Religious Ethics and the Rhetoric of Empire (2012)
- F. Relano, The Shaping of Africa: Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science (2002)
- M. Ryan, ‘Assimilating New Worlds in the 16th & 17th Centuries’, Comparat.Stud.in Soc.&Hist. 23 (1981)
- G.V. Scammell, The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion c.1400-1715 (1989)
- S.B. Schwartz (ed.), Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (1994)
- W.K. Storey (ed.), Scientific Aspects of European Expansion (1996)
- T. Todorov, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (1984)
- J.D. Tracy & M. Rangow (eds), Religion and the early modern state: views form China, Russia, and the West (2004)
- Geoff Wade, 'The Zheng He Voyages: A Reassessment'
- J.M. Williams & R.E. Lewis (eds), Early Images of the Americas: Transfer and Invention (1993)
- M. Wintle, ‘Renaissance Maps and the construction of the idea of Europe’ in Journal of Historical Geography, 25:2 (1999)
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