An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul: City of Remembering and Forgetting by Tillinghast, Richard instant download

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1 online resource, Vendor-supplied metadata, An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul; Contents; Part I: Arrival; 1. First Impressions; 2. Istanbul and Constantinople; 3. Istanbul As It Used To Be; 4. Neighbourhoods; 5. Türkçe; Part II: Roman and Byzantine Constantinople; 6. Constantine the Great; 7. Justinian and Theodora: A walk through imperial Constantinople; 8. The Holy City; 9. Looking at Byzantine Art; 10. Haghia Sophia and Ayasofya; Part III: Ottoman Istanbul; 11. Mehmed the Conqueror; 12. Mehmed the Conqueror and Gentile Bellini; 13. Looking at Islamic Art; 14. Sinan, Imperial Architect; 15. Topkapı Palace, 16. The Archæological Museum and the Çinili Köşk17. In the Shadow of the Blue Mosque; 18. Ahmed III; 19. A Walk through Sultanahmet beyond Haghia Sophia; 20. A Gem by Sinan, and the 'Little Ayasofya'; Part IV: Modern Istanbul; 21. Atatürk and the Difficult Birth of Nodern Turkey; 22. The Worldly City: Beyoğlu and Galata; 23. Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul; 24. The Turkish Kitchen; 25. Crossing over into Asia; 26. Dervishes; 27. The Lost World of the Pashas; 28. The Call to Prayer; 29. The Bosphorus; 30. Foreigners, Expats and Blow-ins; 31. Beyazit: Café and Mosque, 32. Constantinople, Cavafy and the Mediterranean WorldShort Chronology; Rulers of Istanbul; Further Reading; Historical Gazetteer; A Brief Guide to Turkish Pronunciation; Glossary of Turkish Words; Acknowledgements; Author's Note