[Bilimsel Haber] New Book: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century (Shirine Hamadeh)

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- Book Announcement -

THE CITY'S PLEASURES

Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century
Shirine Hamadeh

(University of Washington Press, December 2007, $60 cloth)

THE CITY'S PLEASURES is the first historical investigation of the tremendous
changes that affected the fabric and architecture of Istanbul in the century
that followed the decisive return of the Ottoman court to the capital, in
1703. These were spectacular times, that witnessed the most extraordinary
urban expansion and building explosion in the history of the city.

"Shirine Hamadeh offers compelling discussions of the conceptualization of
urban/public space, the relationship between courtly and popular canons, the
emergence of a leisure class with new tastes and aesthetic sensibilities,
and the artistic exchanges between Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the
eighteenth century."

-- Sibel Bozdogan, Harvard University and Bilgi University, Istanbul

THE CITY'S PLEASURES is a 368-page, clothbound book with 105 illustrations,
plus maps. For more about the book, including the table of contents and
ordering information, visit our website at:
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/HAMCIC.html