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Discussion topics

• What was the impact of overseas expansion on early modern European society?
• Assess the political implications of European expansion in the early modern period.
• Did increased contact with extra-European peoples reinforce or undermine the fundamental cultural assumptions of Europeans?
  
• How should we understand the character of Ottoman overseas expansion?

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Documents

**NOTE: Some eresources are accessible only on-campus or via off-campus proxies or the athens service**

Texts	[Interpret]	Images	[Interpret]
Christopher Columbus, letter to the King and Queen of Spain (undated, probably 1494) Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, extract from Turkish Letters Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592): On Cannibals (1580) St Francis Xavier, Letter from India to the Society of Jesus at Rome (1543) Anonymous French author, Account of East India Trade (1617) Documents on the Chinese Rites Controversy, excerpts (1692, 1715, 1721) Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage Round the World (1519-1522) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) Dining With The Sultana, (1718) Charter of the Dutch West India Company (1621)		Theodor de Bry (1634), Indians of North America woodcuts Crispin de Passe, Portrait of Sir Francis Drake. Map of Southern Asia and the Spice Islands. Tulip Book from Holland Website The British Library: Turning the Pages (Mercator's Atlas)

Audio Links

• Ottoman History Podcasts

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Secondary Reading

Selected Key Texts

Primary Literature

• al-Mawsuli, Ilyas, 'The Book of Travels of the Priest Ilyas, son of the Cleric Hanna al-Mawsuli', in Nabil Matar (ed.), In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century (Routledge, 2003) (ebook), pp. 45-111 [an account of a journey to Spain and the New World by an Iraqi priest]
• P. Mancall (ed.), Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology (2006)

Secondary Literature

• U. Bitterli, Cultures in Conflict: Encounters Between European and Non-European Cultures 1492-1800 (1989)
• G. Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration (2010) (ebook)
  
• J.H. Elliott, The Old World and the New 1492-1650 (1970) (ebook)
  
• R. Houston, ‘The Economies of Europe and the Wider World’, in E. Cameron (ed.), Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History (1999)
• D. Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (2000) (ebook)
  
• K.O. Kupperman (ed.), America in European Consciousness 1493-1750 (1995)
• B. Lewis, Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (1995) (ebook)
  
• A. Pagden, ‘The Impact of the New World on the Old’, Renaissance and Modern Studies 30 (1986)
• “ , ‘Europe and the World Around’ in E. Cameron (ed.), Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History
  (1999) (scan)
  
• C. Woodhead, 'Consolidating the Empire: New Views on Ottoman History 1453-1839’, English Historical Review 123 (2008) (review article)
  

Further Reading

a) European Overseas Expansion

• P. Cardim, T. Herzog, J. Javier Ruiz Ibáñez, G. Sabatini (eds), Polycentric Monarchies: How Did Early Modern Spain & Portugal Achieve & Maintain a Global Hegemony? (2014) (ebook)
  
• A.W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972)
• A. Disney (ed.), Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1450-1800 (1995)
• A. Grafton, New Worlds, Ancient Texts. The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (1992) (ebook)
  
• U. Lamb (ed.), The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed (1995)
• A. McFarlane, The British in the Americas, 1480-1815 (1994)
• R. L. Kagan and G. Parker, Spain, Europe and the Atlantic World: Essays in Honour of John H Elliott (1995)
• L. Montrose et al. (ed.), 'Special Issue: The New World', Representations, 33 (1991)
• A. Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (1982)
• ", European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissaince to Romanticism (1993)
• “ , ‘Text and experience in the writings of Bartolomé de las Casas’, Representations 33 (1991)
• “ , ‘Fabricating identity in Spanish America’, History Today 42 (May 1992)
• J.H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance. Discovery, Exploration and Settlement 1450 to 1650 (1981)
• F. Relano, The Shaping of Africa: Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science (2002)
• M. Ryan, ‘Assimilating New Worlds in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 23 (1981)
• G.V. Scammell, The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion c.1400-1715 (1989)
• S.B. Schwartz (ed.), Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (1994)
• W.K. Storey (ed.), Scientific Aspects of European Expansion (1996)
• T. Todorov, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (1984)
• J.D. Tracy & M. Rangow (eds), Religion and the early modern state: views form China, Russia, and the West (2004) (ebook)
• J.M. Williams & R.E. Lewis (eds), Early Images of the Americas: Transfer and Invention (1993)
  M. Wintle, ‘Renaissance Maps and the construction of the idea of Europe’ in Journal of Historical Geography, 25:2 (1999)

b) The Ottoman Empire

• A. Bevilacqua and H. Pfeifer, 'Turquerie: Culture in Motion, 1650-1750', Past and Present 221 (2013), 75-118
• P. Brummett, Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery (Albany, 1994) (ebook)
  
• A. Cirakman, From the "Terror of the World" to the "Sick Man of Europe": European Images of Ottoman Empire and Society from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century (2002)
• A. H. de Groot, The Ottoman Empire and the Dutch Republic: A History of the Earliest Diplomatic Relations, 1610-1630 (Leiden, 2012)
• S. Faroqhi, The Ottoman Empire: A Short History (Princeton, 2009)
• " (ed.), Cambridge History of Turkey. Volume 2 The Ottoman Empire as a World Power (2012 ed.)(ebook)
• " (ed.), Cambridge History of Turkey. Volume 3 The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839 (2006) (ebook)
• " , The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it (2005) (ebook)
  
• " , Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (2000)
• C. Finkel, Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 (2006)
• S. Fischer-Galati, Ottoman Imperialism and German Protestantism, 1521-1555 (1959)
• J.-P. Ghobrial, The Whispers of Cities: Information Flows in Istanbul, London and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull (Oxford, 2013) (ebook)
• A.C. Hess, ‘The Ottoman conquest of Egypt (1517) and the sixteenth-century world war’, International Journal of Middle East Studies 4 (1973)
• “ , The Forgotten Frontier (1978) (ebook)
  
• C. Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1600. The Structure of Power (2002)
• H. Inalcik, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 (1973)
• C. Isom-Verhaaren, Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century (London, 2013) (ebook)
  
• M. Kunt & C. Woodhead, Süleyman the Magnificent and his Age (1995)
• R. Murphey, ‘Süleyman I and the conquest of Hungary’, Journal of Early Modern History 5 (2001)
• N. Rothman, Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul (Ithaca, 2012) (ebook)
• A. Stiles, The Ottoman Empire 1450-1700 (1989)
• A. Wheatcroft, The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe (2009)

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External Links

Internet Islamic History Sourcebook - texts and documents relating to Ottoman History

The Ottomans.org - detailing history, military, culture and arts of the Ottoman Empire

Islamic Art: the Venetian Perspective- short discussion from Met Museum about Islamic Art in the eyes of early modern Venetians

History of Trade - discussion about European Trade 16th-18th Century

1492: An Ongoing Voyage - exhibition from Library of Congress, Washington

Early modern discoveries, - English and German primary documents relating to early modern discoveries

Cook's Pacific Encounters - explore collection of Pacific artefacts collected during Cook's Pacific Voyages between 1768 and 1780