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The unveiled ladies of Stamboul / Demetra Vaka (Mrs. Kenneth-Brown).
Penn Museum Library DR432 .V35 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaka, Demetra, 1877-1946.
- Series:
- Gorgias reprint series ; v. 15.
- Gorgias reprint series ; v. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Turkey.
- Women.
- Turkey.
- Istanbul (Turkey)--Description and travel.
- Istanbul (Turkey).
- Physical Description:
- x, 260 pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First Gorgias Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This book is a picturesque description of women's life in post World War I Turkey, a period of social and political turmoil. Vaka, an expatriate of Turkey, returns in 1921 to find the veiled ladies of Turkey have gone unveiled.
- Notes:
- Reprint of the 1923 ed.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0971598657
- OCLC:
- 48862894
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