Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Situating the early modern Ottoman world / Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman
- Part I: Mapping the Ottoman world
- 1. Imagining the early modern Ottoman space, from world history to Piri Reis / Palmira Brummett
- Part II: Limits to empire
- 2. Negotiating with the Renaissance state: the Ottoman empire and the new diplomacy / Daniel Goffman
- 3. Information, ideology, and limits of imperial policy: Ottoman grand strategy in the context of Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry / Ga?bor A?goston
- 4. The Ottomans in the Mediterranean / Molly Greene
- 5. Military reform and its limits in a shrinking Ottoman world, 1800-1840 / Virginia H. Aksan
- Part III: Evocations of sovereignty
- 6. Genre and myth in the Ottoman advice for kings literature / Douglas A. Howard
- 7. The politics of early modern Ottoman historiography / Baki Tezcan
- Part IV: Boundaries of belonging
- 8. Inside the Ottoman courthouse: territorial law at the intersection of state and religion / Najwa Al-Qattan
- 9. The material world: ideologies and ordinary things / Leslie Peirce
- 10. Urban voices from beyond : identity, status and social strategies in Ottoman Muslim funerary epitaphs of Istanbul (1700-1850) / Edhem Eldem
- 11. Who is a true Muslim? Exclusion and inclusion among polemicists of reform in nineteenth-century Baghdad / Dina Rizk Khoury
- Part V: Aesthetics of empire
- 12. Public spaces and the garden culture of Istanbul in the eighteenth century / Shirine Hamadeh.