A social history of Ottoman Istanbul

"Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence, shaken regularly by na...

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Main Author: Boyar, Ebru.
Other Authors: Fleet, Kate.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Physical Description: xxi, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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