Format:
1 Online-Ressource (287 p)
ISBN:
9781907973215
Series Statement:
Armchair Traveller's History
Content:
An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul -- Contents -- Part I: Arrival -- 1. First Impressions -- 2. Istanbul and Constantinople -- 3. Istanbul As It Used To Be -- 4. Neighbourhoods -- 5. Türkçe -- Part II: Roman and Byzantine Constantinople -- 6. Constantine the Great -- 7. Justinian and Theodora: A walk through imperial Constantinople -- 8. The Holy City -- 9. Looking at Byzantine Art -- 10. Haghia Sophia and Ayasofya -- Part III: Ottoman Istanbul -- 11. Mehmed the Conqueror -- 12. Mehmed the Conqueror and Gentile Bellini -- 13. Looking at Islamic Art -- 14. Sinan, Imperial Architect
Content:
15. Topkapı Palace -- 16. The Archæological Museum and the Çinili Köşk -- 17. In the Shadow of the Blue Mosque -- 18. Ahmed III -- 19. A Walk through Sultanahmet beyond Haghia Sophia -- 20. A Gem by Sinan, and the 'Little Ayasofya' -- Part IV: Modern Istanbul -- 21. Atatürk and the Difficult Birth of Nodern Turkey -- 22. The Worldly City: Beyoğlu and Galata -- 23. Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul -- 24. The Turkish Kitchen -- 25. Crossing over into Asia -- 26. Dervishes -- 27. The Lost World of the Pashas -- 28. The Call to Prayer -- 29. The Bosphorus -- 30. Foreigners, Expats and Blow-ins
Content:
31. Beyazit: Café and Mosque -- 32. Constantinople, Cavafy and the Mediterranean World -- Short Chronology -- Rulers of Istanbul -- Further Reading -- Historical Gazetteer -- A Brief Guide to Turkish Pronunciation -- Glossary of Turkish Words -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Note
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781907822506
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781907973215
Additional Edition:
Print version Tillinghast, Richard An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul : City of Remembering and Forgetting London : Haus Publishing,c2013 ISBN 9781907973215
Language:
English
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