The Ottoman age of exploration / Giancarlo Casale.

  • Casale, Giancarlo
Date:
2010
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  • Online

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Publication/Creation

Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Physical description

xix, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Contents

Introduction : an empire of the mind -- Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 -- Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance : 1520-1536 -- Hadim Suleiman Pasha's world war : 1536-1546 -- Rustem Pasha versus the Indian Ocean faction : 1546-1561 -- Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the apogee of empire : 1561-1579 -- A man, a plan, a canal : Mir Ali Beg's expeditions to the Swahili coast : 1579-1589 -- The death of politics.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

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