ISBN: 9780801889127

Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate… Mehr…

Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this relationship, he argues, coexistence and cooperation were more common.Moving beyond the &quote;clash of civilizations&quote; model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, Dursteler analyzes the lived reality by focusing on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople.While factors such as religion, culture, and political status could be integral elements in constructions of self and community, Dursteler finds early modern identity to be more than the sum total of its constitutent parts and reveals how the fluidity and malleability of identity in this time and place made coexistence among disparate cultures possible. [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press], Johns Hopkins University Press, 0<

2006, ISBN: 9780801889127

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the… Mehr…

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this relationship, he argues, coexistence and cooperation were more common.Moving beyond the &quote;clash of civilizations&quote; model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, Dursteler analyzes the lived reality by focusing on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople.While factors such as religion, culture, and political status could be integral elements in constructions of self and community, Dursteler finds early modern identity to be more than the sum total of its constitutent parts and reveals how the fluidity and malleability of identity in this time and place made coexistence among disparate cultures possible. [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press], Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006<

ISBN: 9780801889127

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