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The city's pleasures : Istanbul in the eighteenth century / Shirine Hamadeh.
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View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamadeh, Shirine.
- Series:
- Publications on the Near East, University of Washington
- Publications on the Near East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Istanbul (Turkey)--History--18th century.
- Istanbul (Turkey).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 350 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Note on transliteration
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The conquest of the Bosphorus
- Architecture, ceremonial, and exhibitionism
- Splash and spectacle
- Public spaces and public order
- In and out of the poetic canon
- Building histories in verse
- Fruits, flowers, and sensory pleasures
- East, west, and the appeal of novelty
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Selected bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295986678
- 0295986670
- OCLC:
- 76142199
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