Douglas S Brookes

On the Sultan's Service

Halid Ziya Usakligil's Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909-1912

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

1. This book is a unique window into Otooman palace life in the twentieth century, just before everything changed. 2. The book will find audiences with experts in Ottoman studies. The book was written by Halid Ziya Usakligil, Turkey's most famous novelist, so will have interest to those in literary studies as well. 3. The editor and translator is an established scholar who is a lecturer in Ottoman Turkish in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780253045515
• ISBN-10: 0253045517
• Artikelnr.: 55178949

Autorenporträt

Douglas S. Brookes

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction Maps Timeline of Late Ottoman History Family Tree 1. A New Court for a New Monarch 2. Redoing the Palaces 3. On Show 4. The Imperial Household 5. The Imperial Family 6. Wedding Vows and Dueling Heirs 7. Papers, Papers 8. Mysterious Y
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9. Coming to Call 10. Royal Guests 11. On Holiday 12. Maneuvering, Touring 13. No End to Crises 14. Caught in the Vise 15. Bringing Down the Curtain 16. The Man Who Would Be Sultan Epilogue Glossary of Names Glossary of Terms and Places Bibliography Index