Palmira Brummett is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Tennessee, where she was Distinguished Professor of Humanities, and Visiting Professor of History at Brown University. Her publications include Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery (1994); Image and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908 1911 (2000); The 'Book' of Travels: Genre, Ethnology and Pilgrimage, 1250 1700 (2009), for which she was the editor and a contributor; and Civilizations Past and Present (2000 5), for which she was the coauthor of multiple editions. She has also writ...