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The whispers of cities : information flows in Istanbul, London, and Paris in the age of William Trumbull /
Oral and epistolary flows of information are the dark matter of early modern history. Omnipresent, yet often imperceptible to the historian’s eye, such information flows connected Europe and the Middle East long before the emergence of modern communications, and they played an important role in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : 1688, Istanbul, London, Paris. Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and connectedness ; Information flows and the history of communication ; The Trumbull papers
- The world of Sir William Trumbull. Trumbull's education and career ; The uses of Turcica
- Other ways of knowing. Oral informants and experts ; The efficiency of correspondence networks ; Archives and registers ; Conclusion
- European-Ottoman sociability in Istanbul. A material world ; The business of diplomacy ; The English embassy ; Conclusion
- Overcoming distance in everyday communication. European news in Istanbul ; Beyond dragomans ; Trumbull's network and its limits ; Conclusion
- The life of a story : the deposition of Sultan Mehmed IV. The newsletters of Istanbul ; Thomas Coke and oral networks of communication ; Writing a revolution ; The afterlives of Mehmed IV in scribal and print media ; Conclusion
- Conclusion : information flows in the seventeenth century.