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The Whispers of Cities - Information Flows in Istanbul, London, and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull (Hardcover, New)
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The Whispers of Cities - Information Flows in Istanbul, London, and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull (Hardcover, New)
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In recent years, global historians have painted an impressionistic
picture of what they call the 'connected world' of the seventeenth
century. Inspired perhaps by the globalised world in which they
write, scholars have emphasised how the circulation of people,
objects, and ideas linked the distant reaches of the early modern
world. Yet for all the advocates of such a 'connected history', we
are only beginning to make sense of what global connectedness meant
in practice in the lives of ordinary people. To this end, The
Whispers of Cities explores interactions between early modern
Europe and the Ottoman Empire through the kaleidoscope of
communication. It does so by focusing on how information flows
linked Istanbul, London, and Paris in the late seventeenth century.
Because individuals were at the heart of communication, the book
offers a micro-historical reading of the experiences of Sir William
Trumbull, English ambassador to Istanbul from 1687 to 1692. It
follows Trumbull as he was transformed from a civil lawyer and
state official in London to a European notable at the heart of
Ottoman social networks in Istanbul. In this way, The Whispers of
Cities reveals how information flows between Istanbul, London, and
Paris were rooted in the personal encounters that took place
between Ottomans and Europeans in everyday communication. At the
intersection of global history and the history of communication,
therefore, the author argues that worlds of information tied
Europeans to their Ottoman counterparts long before the age of
modernisation, as news, stories, and even fictions transcended
linguistic and confessional boundaries and connected people across
Europe and the Mediterranean world. What emerges here is a picture
of globalization that is as much about networks, flows, and
circulation as it is about the imperfections, asymmetries, and
unevenness of connectedness in the early modern world.
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