The Whispers of Cities
Information Flows in Istanbul, London, and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 December 2013
- ISBN 9780199672417
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages210 pages
- Size 236x162x19 mm
- Weight 466 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 black and white images 0
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Short description:
Explores interactions between early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire through the kaleidoscope of communication, by offering a micro-historical reading of the experiences of Sir William Trumbull, English ambassador to Istanbul from 1687 to 1692.
MoreLong description:
In recent years, global historians have painted an impressionistic picture of what they call the 'connected world' of the seventeenth century. Inspired perhaps by the globalised world in which they write, scholars have emphasised how the circulation of people, objects, and ideas linked the distant reaches of the early modern world. Yet for all the advocates of such a 'connected history', we are only beginning to make sense of what global connectedness meant in practice in the lives of ordinary people.
To this end, The Whispers of Cities explores interactions between early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire through the kaleidoscope of communication. It does so by focusing on how information flows linked Istanbul, London, and Paris in the late seventeenth century. Because individuals were at the heart of communication, the book offers a micro-historical reading of the experiences of Sir William Trumbull, English ambassador to Istanbul from 1687 to 1692. It follows Trumbull as he was transformed from a civil lawyer and state official in London to a European notable at the heart of Ottoman social networks in Istanbul. In this way, The Whispers of Cities reveals how information flows between Istanbul, London, and Paris were rooted in the personal encounters that took place between Ottomans and Europeans in everyday communication. At the intersection of global history and the history of communication, therefore, the author argues that worlds of information tied Europeans to their Ottoman counterparts long before the age of modernisation, as news, stories, and even fictions transcended linguistic and confessional boundaries and connected people across Europe and the Mediterranean world. What emerges here is a picture of globalization that is as much about networks, flows, and circulation as it is about the imperfections, asymmetries, and unevenness of connectedness in the early modern world.
In The Whispers of Cities: Information Flows in Istanbul, London, and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull, Ghobrial brings this neglected mediation to the fore.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: 1688: Istanbul, London, Paris
The World of Sir William Trumbull
Other Ways of Knowing
European-Ottoman Sociability in Istanbul
Overcoming Distance in Everyday Communication
The Life of a Story: The Deposition of Mehmed IV in 1687
Conclusion
