UID:
kobvindex_INT0002667
Format:
xvi, 590 pages
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illustrations, maps
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28 cm
Edition:
2. basım
ISBN:
9786053600640
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6053600644
Series Statement:
Genel yayın (Türkiye İş Bankası. Kültür Yayınları) (Vol. 2070)
Uniform Title:
Istanbul : an urban history : Byzantion, Constantinopolis, Istanbul
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE (summary of English edition): "This is not a book on archaeology, nor, although it lays particular stress on the architecture, an architectural history of Istanbul. It is an attempt to present the urban history of a world-city called Istanbul, Constantinople, Byzantion in different periods of its history. It delineates historical circumstances, or sudden ruptures, but above all, it attempts to present this unique world-city as experienced by its citizens and visitors, and as imagined by the world at large. While recent researches on the topography, history and monuments of the city are integrated in the text, my intention is to present the essence of the historical image of Istanbul contextually within physical, social and cultural framework. I have no intention of breaking new ground on the topography of the city, but I wish to convey the terms of a unique human experience in one of the longest surviving cities of the world, built in a most beautiful and enchanting landscape. The great Byzantine scholar R. Janin speaks of various "visages" of the city composed through the rhythms of life or caprices of the emperors. Most of this intricate relationships created in millennia between men, site, and artifact are gone and difficult to visualize. In writing this urban history, while I try to remain objective, I know that I create a literary model using as reference the least changed of the historical elements, the surviving monuments, the site with its basic shape and articulations, and contemporary accounts -not necessarily sources of hard facts, but as primary expressions, reactions and emotions. Thus trying to keep myself away, as far as possible, from speculation and methods of criminal fiction, I have delineated the history of this grandiose, dramatic and often cruel city of Istanbul."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: 1st edition published 2010
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MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE (contents of English edition): Foreword -- Introduction -- BOOK ONE: BYZANTION AND CONSTANTINOPLE -- Part I: The Call Of The Site -- 1. The Site And Its First Settlements -- 2. The City Of Byzantion -- Part II: The Roman Imperial Capital -- 3. The Constantinian City -- 4. The Theodosian Walls -- Part III: The East Roman Capital (4th-7th Centuries) -- 5. Elements Of The Urban Physiognomy -- 6. The Reconstruction Of The City By Justinian -- 7. Suburbia Up To The 7th Century -- Part IV: Medieval Byzantine Capital (565-1453) -- 8. From The End Of The Reign Of Justinian To The Macedonian Dynasty -- 9. Iconoclasm -- 10. Monasticism And Monasteries -- 11. Macedonians And Comnenians (876-1204) -- 12. Medieval Constantinople -- 13. The Crusaders -- 14. From Reconquest To 1453 -- 15. The Palaeologan City -- 16. Galata, The Levantine City -- 17. The Fall Of Constantinople -- BOOK TWO: ISTANBUL -- Part I: The Foundation Of The Ottoman Capital -- 18. The Conqueror's Istanbul -- 19. The Concept Of The Turkish-Muslim City -- 20. Re-Building -- 21. The Case Of Galata -- 22. Transformation From Byzantine To Turkish City (1481-1520) -- 23. Matrakçı Nasuh's Map Of Istanbul -- 24. The Age Of Süleyman The Magnificent And Sinan The Great -- 25. Sinan's Istanbul, A City Concept Materialised -- 26. The Development Of The City (1520-1603) -- 27. Pierre Gilles: A Last Glimpse At The Remains Of Roman Constantinople In The Mid-16th Century -- 28. Urban Development after Sinan (1588-1703) -- 29. Ottoman Society In The Capital (16th-17th Centuries) -- 30. Istanbul Of Evliya Çelebi -- 31. The Imperial Palace (16th-17th Centuries) -- Part II: The Process Of Slow Westernisation -- 32. Manierism Of The Tulip Period -- 33. Looking Toward The West: Baroque Istanbul -- 34. The Urban Landscape Of Melling's Engravings -- 35. Brief Account On The Urban Character Of Pre-Industrial Istanbul -- 36. Changing Images And Changing Structure (1808-1918) -- 37. The Cosmopolitan Capital -- Part III: The Republican Era -- 38. The Abandoned Capital (1923-1950) -- 39. Toward A New Metropolis (1950-1960) -- 40. The Gecekondu Or The Undeclared War Against Urban Image -- 41. Can The Historical Heritage Survive? -- 42. Istanbul After the Sixties -- 43. The Democratic Masses Of The Megalopolis -- Bibliography -- Visual Sources -- Index
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LANGUAGE NOTE: translation from the English language edition: Istanbul : an urban history : Byzantion, Constantinopolis, Istanbul. Revised edition, 2010
Language:
Turkish
