Subrahmanyam Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7436-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Hindu Studies

A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Introduction: Revisiting Empires and Connecting Histories

Beginnings

2. Rethinking the Establishment of the Estado da India, 1498–1509

3. Italians, Corsicans, and Portuguese in the Indian Ocean

4. Unhappy Subjects of Empire, 1515–1530

Connections and Comparisons

5. Connecting the Iberian Empires, 1500–1640

6. Mughals, Ottomans, and Habsburgs: Some Comparisons

7. Iberian Roots of the British Empire

Representations

8. World Historians in the Sixteenth Century

9. Empires and Wonders

10. Early Modern Empires and Intellectual Networks

11. Asia Between and Beyond Empires

Bibliography
Index

Maps and Illustrations

Map 1. The Iberian Empires on a World Scale, 1580–1640

Map 2. The Central Habsburg and Ottoman domains, ca. 1550

Fig. 1. Arabic letter from the ruler of Kannur (Cannanore) to Antonio Carneiro in Portugal (1518), Torre do
Tombo, Lisbon

Fig. 2. Letter from the Tamil merchants of Melaka to the King of Portugal (1527), Torre do Tombo, Lisbon

Fig. 3. Text of the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon

Fig. 4. Representation of Portuguese fidalgos in Goa from Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Itinerario (1596)

Fig. 5. View of the mining centre of Potosi in Bolivia, by Bernard Lens (1715)

Fig. 6. World map from the Ottoman Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (1730)

Fig. 7. Hunting exotic animals in America, from the Ottoman Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (1730)

Fig. 8. Portuguese representation of a monster in Turkey, from Emblema vivente (1727)

Fig. 9. John Stafford, Asia, from an allegory of the continents (1625–35)

Fig. 10. Map of ‘Iqlim Asya’ based on Katib Celebi’s Cihannuma, printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika (1732)

Über Autor(innen)

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor and Irving and Jean Stone Chair in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500–1650.