In the Palaces of the Sultan : : New Introduction by Teresa Heffernan / / Anna Bowman Dodd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dodd, Anna Bowman,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (564 p.)

As Anna Bowman Dodd (1855-1929), a New York travel writer and journalist, journeyed to Istanbul with the American Ambassador to France she embarked on a detailed account of the city and its people. Interested in documenting the changes in Turkey brought about by the "embrace" of modernity...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
• THE REFLEXIVE ORIENTALIST: AN AMERICAN IN ISTANBUL
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• I. WITHIN THE GATES
• II. THE MESSENGERS FROM THE PALACE
• III. THE SELAMLIK — FROM THE PALACE OF YILDIZ KIOSK
• IV. THE PRIVATE AUDIENCE
• V. TEA IN HIS MAJESTY'S STABLES
• VI. THE BANQUET IN THE PALACE
• VII. IN THE PALACE THEATRE
• VIII. THE COURT OF THE OSMANLIS
• IX. THE IMPERIAL TREASURY AND LIBRARY
• X. THE HAREM AND COURT OF THE SERAGLIO
• XI. SOME AMBASSADORS AT THE COURT OF THE OSMANLIS
• XII. O TOP-KHANEH
• XIII. IN THE ROYAL CAÏQUES
• XIV. A TURKISH COUR D'ÉTAT
• XV. A CHAIN OF ROYAL PALACES
• XVI. THE DANCING DERVISHES
• XVII. ALL IN A DAY
• XVIII. THE CITIES OF SEVERUS, CONSTANTINE, AND JUSTINIAN
• XIX. CONSTANTINOPLE AND SANTA SOPHIA
• XX. THE MOSLEM CITY
• XXI. PERA AND GALATA
• XXII. SCUTARI AND BRUSA
• NOTES AND IMPRESSIONS
• I. TWO OLD TRAVELLERS
• II. "THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK"
• III. "ARE THERE NO HAREMS?"
• IV. HAREMS AND THE "KAIF"
• V. THE COMMON PEOPLE AND THE RELIGION OF MAHOMET
• VI. WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN TURKEY
• VII. SLAVES AND SLAVERY IN TURKEY
• VIII. THE IMPERIAL HAREM
• IX. HAREM DISTRACTIONS AND TURKISH HOUSEHOLDS
• X. TURKISH REFORMS AND EUROPEAN INFLUENCES