On the Sultan''s Service - Halid Ziya Usakligil''s Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 19091912

1. This book is a unique window into Otooman palace life in the twentieth century, just before everything changed.
2. The book will find audiences with experts in Ottoman studies. The book was written by Halid Ziya Usakligil, Turkey's most famous novelist, so will have interest to those in literary studies as well.


3. The editor and translator is an established scholar who is a lecturer in Ottoman Turkish in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

List of contents

Foreword

Introduction

Maps

Timeline of Late Ottoman History

Family Tree

1. A New Court for a New Monarch

2. Redoing the Palaces

3. On Show

4. The Imperial Household

5. The Imperial Family

6. Wedding Vows and Dueling Heirs

7. Papers, Papers

8. Mysterious Y¿ld¿z, Daunting Topkap¿

9. Coming to Call

10. Royal Guests

11. On Holiday

12. Maneuvering, Touring

13. No End to Crises

14. Caught in the Vise

15. Bringing Down the Curtain

16. The Man Who Would Be Sultan

Epilogue

Glossary of Names

Glossary of Terms and Places

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Douglas Scott Brookes teaches Ottoman Turkish at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Harem Ghosts: What One Cemetery Can Tell Us About the Ottoman Empire and The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas S Brookes, Douglas S. Brookes, Douglas Scott (TRN) Brookes
• Assisted by: Douglas Brookes (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780253045508
• ISBN: 978-0-253-04550-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Türkei, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage, History - General History, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire