Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political,
and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the
long eighteenth century. Bookmarking his analysis with the conflict
leading to the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz on one end and the 1815 bid
for Greek independence on the other, he follows the fortunes of
notable British, Dutch, and French diplomats to the Sublime Porte
of the Ottoman Empire as they lived and worked according to the
capitulations surrendered to the Sultan. Closely reading a mixed
archive of drawings, maps, letters, dispatches, memoirs, travel
narratives, engraved books, paintings, poems, and architecture,
O'Quinn demonstrates the extent to which the Ottoman state was not
only the subject of historical curiosity in Europe but also a key
foil against which Western theories of governance were articulated.
Juxtaposing narrative accounts of diplomatic life in
Constantinople, such as those contained in the letters of Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu, wife of the English ambassador, with visual
depictions such as those of the costumes of the Ottoman elite
produced by the French-Flemish painter Jean Baptiste Vanmour, he
traces the dissemination of European representations and
interpretations of the Ottoman Empire throughout eighteenth-century
material culture. In a series of eight interlocking chapters,
O'Quinn presents sustained and detailed case studies of particular
objects, personalities, and historical contexts, framing
intercultural encounters between East and West through a set of key
concerns: translation, mediation, sociability, and hospitality.
Richly illustrated and provocatively argued, Engaging the Ottoman
Empire demonstrates that study of the Ottoman world is vital to
understanding European modernity.
General
| Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Material Texts |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| First published: |
2019 |
| Authors: |
Daniel O'Quinn
|
| Dimensions: |
254 x 178mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
496 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5128-2553-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5128-2553-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781512825534 |
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