Introduction : situating the early modern Ottoman world / Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman
Mapping the Ottoman world
Imagining the early modern Ottoman space, from world history to Piri Reis / Palmira Brummett
Negotiating with the Renaissance state : the Ottoman empire and the new diplomacy / Daniel Goffman
Information, ideology, and limits of imperial policy : Ottoman grand strategy in the context of Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry / Gábor Ágoston
The Ottomans in the Mediterranean / Molly Greene
Military reform and its limits in a shrinking Ottoman world, 1800-1840 / Virginia H. Aksan
Evocations of sovereignty
Genre and myth in the Ottoman advice for kings literature / Douglas A. Howard
The politics of early modern Ottoman historiography / Baki Tezcan
Inside the Ottoman courthouse : territorial law at the intersection of state and religion / Najwa Al-Qattan
The material world : ideologies and ordinary things / Leslie Peirce
Urban voices from beyond : identity, status and social strategies in Ottoman Muslim funerary epitaphs of Istanbul (1700-1850) / Edhem Eldem
Who is a true Muslim? : exclusion and inclusion among polemicists of reform in nineteenth-century Baghdad / Dina Rizk Khoury
Public spaces and the garden culture of Istanbul in the eighteenth century / Shirine Hamadeh.
