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The Ottoman Age of Exploration (Hardcover)
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The Ottoman Age of Exploration (Hardcover)
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In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and
brought his empire for the first time in history into direct
contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the
decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more
engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar
region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic
ideological, military and commercial challenge to the Portuguese
Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade routes
of maritime Asia.
The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive
historical account of this century-long struggle for global
dominance, a struggle that raged from the shores of the
Mediterranean to the Straits of Malacca, and from the interior of
Africa to the steppes of Central Asia. Based on extensive research
in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as materials
written on three continents and in a half dozen languages, it
presents an unprecedented picture of the global reach of the
Ottoman state during the sixteenth century. It does so through a
dramatic recounting of the lives of sultans and viziers, spies,
corsairs, soldiers-of-fortune, and women from the imperial harem.
Challenging traditional narratives of Western dominance, it argues
that the Ottomans were not only active participants in the Age of
Exploration, but ultimately bested the Portuguese in the game of
global politics by using sea power, dynastic prestige, and
commercial savoir faire to create their own imperial dominion
throughout the Indian Ocean.
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