The Ottoman age of Exploration [Audiobook] download free by Giancarlo Casale
- Listen audiobook: The Ottoman age of Exploration
- Author: Giancarlo Casale
- Release date: 2011/8/31
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780199874040
- Rating: 9.12 of 10
- Votes: 820
- Review by: Amaris Colby
- Review rating: 8.72 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/14
- Duration: 3H43M56S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-14
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, FLAC, OGG, MPEG4, WAV (compression ZIP, TAR, AZW4, CAB, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M41S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 forcontrol 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 Ottomanstate 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 activeparticipants 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Guidebooks, Colonialism & Imperialism, Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700, Geographical Discovery & Exploration, Middle Eastern History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 32.38 USD
- Dimensions: 156x234x16mm
- Weight: 432g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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