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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King (Engli
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- ISBN-13
- 9780393351866
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- ISBN
- 9780393351866
- Book Title
- Midnight at the Pera Palace : the Birth of Modern Istanbul
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Sociology / General, Modern / 20th Century, Social History, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul--an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city--people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs--a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests. In beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393351866
ISBN-13
9780393351866
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Midnight at the Pera Palace : the Birth of Modern Istanbul
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Sociology / General, Modern / 20th Century, Social History, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
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Trade
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This social history of one of the world's most fascinating cities is as illuminating as it is entertaining. Characters from Trotsky to Hemingway, from a blind Armenian musician to a future pope, help tell the story of how Istanbul transformed itself from a refugee-clogged backwater into a vibrant metropolis. Midnight at the Pera Palace is a true Turkish delight., [A]n engaging, detailed look at the old city that became the newest of them all in the interwar years., This highly readable, brilliant book is a true masterpiece in the contemporary study of psychopathology. Russell Meares's original and evidence-based account of the core of borderline personality disorder convincingly explicates its dissociative nature and its relationships with impulsivity, hindered mentalization, and traumatic memories. Meares offers clinicians a unique understanding of the borderline patient's affects and inner experience of self, thereby laying the foundation for highly effective therapeutic exchanges., In this memorably distilled history, Charles King tells us just what the Pera Palace was--the ornately decaying hotel crouched at the center of a mare's nest of intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book., Superb--deliciously dense with detail and sheer narrative force as Charles King tells the twentieth-century history of the Near East through the prism of one great city. A sepia-toned classic!, This excellent book, the culmination of a distinguished career, is vital for anyone seeking to understand the extreme mental suffering of what we currently call BPD. Drawing from neuroscience, historical scholarship, psychological research, and clinical observation, Russell Meares offers an erudite, compassionate account of the 'painful incoherence' at the heart of this disorder. By synthesizing both left- and right-brain data into a useful narrative, which is also a pleasure to read, he demonstrates on a grand scale the integrative process that nourishes us all and agonizingly eludes individuals with borderline psychologies., King has combed out the threads of this complex and highly nuanced story in a hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched and deeply absorbing book., Popular history at its best, authoritative and hugely entertaining. Few places were as colorful as Istanbul between the wars and Professor King captures all the chaotic brio and contradictions of a city, and a culture, reinventing itself., A diverse cast, ranging from Muslim beauty queens and Georgian royalty to Leon Trotsky, have left their mark on Istanbul, and King nimbly weaves their threads with enough color to draw in general readers and enough detail to satisfy specialists.
Copyright Date
2015
Dewey Decimal
949.61/8024
Dewey Edition
23
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