In the Palaces of the Sultan : : New Introduction by Teresa Heffernan / / Anna Bowman Dodd.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2004 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (564 p.) |
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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