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The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire by Molly Greene, and: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600 by Nükhet Varlik, and: Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England by Anders Ingram (review)

The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire by Molly Greene, and:... 126 JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, MARCH 2018 The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire.By MOLLY GREENE. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 239 pp. $49.95 (paper). Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600.By NÜKHET VARLIK. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 336 pp. $103.00 (hardcover). Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England. By ANDERS INGRAM. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 195 pp. $38.95 (paper). Much has been made recently of the spatial turn in historical scholarship, an avenue of inquiry that builds upon and dialogues with transnational, environmental, and disease history. The Ottoman Empire has not been immune to this historiographical development and, indeed, the spatial turn has opened up alternate horizons and points of entry into the exceedingly complex and fascinating history of the Ottoman imperial project and its reverberations within and upon classical “western” European history. Taking the Ottoman imperial capital of Istanbul as the epicenter of pulsating early-modern geo- political shock waves, the three books under review here form, in their collectivity, a concurrent and concentric spatial synopsis of European- Ottoman history in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Adopting, as these books do to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire by Molly Greene, and: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600 by Nükhet Varlik, and: Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England by Anders Ingram (review)

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Journal of World History , Volume 29 (1) – Mar 1, 2018
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126 JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, MARCH 2018 The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire.By MOLLY GREENE. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 239 pp. $49.95 (paper). Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600.By NÜKHET VARLIK. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 336 pp. $103.00 (hardcover). Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England. By ANDERS INGRAM. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 195 pp. $38.95 (paper). Much has been made recently of the spatial turn in historical scholarship, an avenue of inquiry that builds upon and dialogues with transnational, environmental, and disease history. The Ottoman Empire has not been immune to this historiographical development and, indeed, the spatial turn has opened up alternate horizons and points of entry into the exceedingly complex and fascinating history of the Ottoman imperial project and its reverberations within and upon classical “western” European history. Taking the Ottoman imperial capital of Istanbul as the epicenter of pulsating early-modern geo- political shock waves, the three books under review here form, in their collectivity, a concurrent and concentric spatial synopsis of European- Ottoman history in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Adopting, as these books do to

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