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Hb: 978-1-138-63131-1 | £95.00eBook: 978-1-315-20896-1

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Contents; Notes on Contributors Introduction ChristophHerzog and Richard Wittmann; Part I: European and OttomanWomen in the Empire The Memories of German-speakingWomen of Constantinople Gudrun Wedel; Wanderlust,Follies, and Self-Inflicted Misfortunes: The Memoirs of AnnaForneris and her Thirty Years in Constantinople and the LevantMalte Fuhrmann; The Imperial Harem Network in Istanbul,1850s to 1922 Börte Sagaster; Part II: Outside Observers ofIstanbul Amalgamated Observations: Assessing AmericanImpressions of Nineteenth-Century Constantinople and itsPeoples Kent Schull; Istanbul and the Formation of an ArabTeenager’s Identity. Recollections of a Cadet in the OttomanArmy in 1914 and 1916–17 Malek Sharif; Hispanic Observersof Istanbul Pablo Martín Asuero; Part III: Jewish CommunitiesThe Autobiographical Writings of the ConstantinopleJudezmo Journalist David Fresco as a Clue toward His Attitudeto Language David M. Bunis; Istanbul’s Jewish Communitythrough the Eyes of a European Jew. Ludwig A. Frankl in hisNach Jerusalem Yaron Ben-Naeh; Part IV: Armenian andBulgarian Christian Communities; A Stroll through theQuarters of Constantinople: Sketches of the City as Seenthrough the Eyes of the Great Satirist Hagop Baronian RachelGoshgarian; From Short Stories to Social Topography: MisakKoçunyan’s Life Landscapes Aylin Koçunyan; Bulgar Milleti

Nedir?" Syncretic Forms of Belonging inMid-Nineteenth-Century Istanbul. Darin Stephanov; TwentyYears in the Ottoman Capital: The Memoirs of Doctor HristoTanev Stambolski of Kazanlik (1843-1932) from an OttomanPoint of View Johann Strauss; Index

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Istanbul - Kushta -ConstantinopleNarratives of Identity in the Ottoman Capital,1830-1930

Edited by Christoph Herzog and Richard Wittmann

Series: Life Narratives of the Ottoman Realm: Individual and Empire in the Near East

The book introduces the reader to the wealth of narrative sources on late Ottoman Istanbul's diverse population by drawing on the voices of its permanent residents and foreign visitors. It juxtaposes a selection of unpublished and/or neglected life narratives to the prevailing national historiographies and creates a tapestry of diverse perceptions of life in the Ottoman capital formed from various angles, gender perspectives and social backgrounds.

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