| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 creation of a 'connected world' in the seventeenth century. The Whispers of Cities explores how information linked Istanbul, London, and Paris in the late seventeenth century. To this end, the book explores early modern communication through the adventures and experiences of Sir William Trumbull, English ambassador to Istanbul from 1687 to 1692. The book tracks Trumbull during his transformation from a civil lawyer and state official in London to a European notable at the heart of Ottoman social networks in Istanbul. During his residence in the Ottoman capital, Trumbull would turn to a wide range of local informants for information and news about Ottoman politics, and he would himself become an agent in the production of news about the Ottoman world for publics in Europe. In this way, this book argues that information flows between Istanbul, London, and Paris were rooted in the personal encounters that took place between Ottomans and Europeans in everyday communication in Istanbul. At the intersection of global history and the history of communication, The Whisper of Cities explores what 'connectedness' meant in practice for the lives of people in the seventeenth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Hilton, Paris 1981- gnd |
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Trumbull, William 1639-1716 gnd |
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Trumbull, William, 1639-1716. gnd (DE-601)58330429X |
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Trumbull, William. rero |
| Subject |
Communication, International -- History -- 17th century
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Communication, International
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Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045685
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Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Europe.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090505
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Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802
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Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1648-1715.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006006591
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Middle East -- Foreign relations -- 17th century
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Europe
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Middle East
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191652653 |
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0191652652 |
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1306300258 |
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9781306300254 |
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9780191770494 |
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0191770493 |
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