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Palmira Brummett
Palmira Brummett is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Tennessee. Her work assesses the rhetoric of cross-cultural interaction in the Ottoman and Mediterranean worlds. Her current interests include maps as representations of identity, visualizations of travel, and the ways in which women and gender figure in the rhetoric of trans-imperial relations. Her publications include: Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery (S.U.N.Y. Press, 1994); Image and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908–1911 (S.U.N.Y. Press, 2000); The ‘Book’ of Travels: Genre, Ethnology and Pilgrimage, 1250–1700 (Brill, 2009); Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean, (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and articles on Ottoman, Mediterranean, and world history.