Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe

01/30/16 • -1 min

History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise

with Ayesha Ramachandran
hosted by Chris Gratien
This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise. Download the series
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We often speak of physical and abstract worlds as if they were self-evident. But the concept of "the world" has been forged and continually remade through imagination and debate. In this podcast, Ayesha Ramachandran discusses the historical context of the world's ascendance as a meaningful concept and offers a preview of her new book entitled Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe.
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Mapping the Ottomans

with Palmira Brummett
hosted by Chris Gratien
In a new episode, we speak to Palmira Brummett about her new book, which examines the mapping and representation of Ottoman space in early modern Europe.This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise. Download the series
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Where did the Ottomans fit within the geographical understandings of Christian kingdoms in early modern Europe? How did Europeans reconcile the notion of "the Turk" as other with the reality of an Ottoman presence in the Balkans and Eastern Europe? What was the relationship between the maps and representations of Ottoman space in Europe and the self-mapping carried out by the Ottomans in maps and miniatures? These are some of the major questions addressed by our guest Palmira Brummett in her new book Mapping the Ottomans, which uses maps to study early modern space and time, travel, the flow of information, claims to sovereignty, and cross-cultural encounters between the Ottomans neighboring Christian polities.
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Experimenting with Plague in 18th Century Egypt

with Edna Bonhomme
hosted by Chris Gratien
Edna Bonhomme updates us on the progress of her research concerning the history of plague in North Africa. This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise.
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Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud As research on the early modern period increasingly shows, bubonic plague played a formative role in the making of state policies and medical practice, and concern over plague created new connections between different regions of the Mediterranean. In this episode, Edna Bonhomme joins us again to talk about her research on plague in North Africa, its relationship with the issue of the global slave trade, and the ways in which experimenting with plague became a practice among Europeans residing in 18th-century Egypt.
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