The patriarch of Constantinople, Gregory V, was summoned to Topkapi Pal. ace, where he assured the sultan that he and ... The Greek rebellion became the cause célèbre in all the smart circles in France, England, and the United States.
This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in Istanbul, one of the oldest and grandest of world cities.
Fu nel corso di questo conflitto che furono gettate le basi dell'assistenza infermieristica moderna, nata per curare i soldati inglesi e ottomani feriti che venivano condotti a İstanbul nelle caserme di Selimiye, ora sede del Museo ...
Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that ...
John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and intrigue. The book also includes a comprehensive gazetteer of all major monuments and museums.
Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer.
Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented ...
John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and intrigue. The book also includes a comprehensive gazetteer of all major monuments and museums.
Après Tanger et Alexandrie, avec cet Istanbul, Daniel Rondeau arrive au terme d'un voyage en Méditerranée commencé il y aura bientôt vingt ans. Istanbul ou la Sublime Porte : le...
One of Time’s 12 Books for the History Buffs on Your Holiday Gift List The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present.
DK Eyewitness: winner of the Top Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2017. "No other guide whets your appetite quite like this one" - The Independent Planning a shorter trip? Try our DK Eyewitness Top 10 Istanbul guide.
Presents background information on the history and architecture of Istanbul along with recommendations for accommodations, restaurants, shopping, sights, nightlife, entertainment, sports, and activities.
Istanbul
Offers recommendations for accommodations, restaurants, transportation, shopping, major points of interest, and sightseeing activities in Istanbul.
İstanbul
From simple meze dishes to fragrant Ottoman-era stews, this book is full of delicious recipes - try roasted aubergines stuffed with spiced lamb, crunchy fennel salad with radishes and sumac, or chicken with almonds and apricots, and be ...
As much a portrait of the artist as a young manas it is an oneiric Joycean map of the city, "Istanbul is a masterful evocation of its subject through the idiosyncrasies of direct experience as much as the power of myth--the dazzling book ...
One of Time’s 12 Books for the History Buffs on Your Holiday Gift List The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present.
... Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils,” Public Culture 12, no. 2 (2000): 529–564; and David Harvey, Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). 2. Harvey, Cosmopolitanism ...
Istanbul in 1956 was a city very much affected by the Cold War.