Giancarlo Casale

The Ottoman Age of Exploration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The story of the Ottoman Empire's struggle with the Portuguese for control of the sixteenth-century Indian Ocean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780199874040
• ISBN-10: 0199874042
• Artikelnr.: 35710396

Autorenporträt

McKnight Land Grant Professor of History, University of Minnesota

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: An Empire of the Mind
* Chapter One: Selim the Navigator (1512-1520)
* Chapter Two: Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance (1520-1536)
* Chapter Three: Hadim Suleiman Pasha's World War (1536-1544)
* Chapter Four: Rustem Pasha vs. the Indian Ocean Faction (1544-1561)
* Chapter Five: Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the Apogee of Ottoman Power in
the Indian Ocean (1561-1579)
* Chapter Six: A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Mir Ali Beg's Expeditions to the
Swahili Coast (1579-1589)
* Chapter Seven: The Death of Politics
* Notes
* Bibliography of Cited Works