Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies
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Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

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Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

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This book tells the story of Y?ld?z Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul's urban memory. At its peak, however, Y?ld?z was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire's vast bureaucratic apparatus.

Following a chronological arc from 1795 to 1909, The Accidental Palace shows how the site developed from a rural estate of the queen mothers into the heart of Ottoman government. Nominally, the palace may have belonged to the rarefied realm of the Ottoman elite, but as Deniz Türker reveals, the development of the site was profoundly connected to Istanbul's urban history and to changing conceptions of empire, absolutism, diplomacy, reform, and the public. Türker explores these connections, framing Y?ld?z Palace and its grounds not only as a hermetic expression of imperial identity but also as a product of an increasingly globalized consumer culture, defined by access to a vast number of goods and services across geographical boundaries.

Drawn from archival research conducted in Y?ld?z's imperial library, The Accidental Palace provides important insights into a decisive moment in the palace's architectural and landscape history and demonstrates how Y?ld?z was inextricably tied to ideas of sovereignty, visibility, taste, and self-fashioning. It will appeal to specialists in the art, architecture, politics, and culture of nineteenth-century Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780271094250
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
History of Architecture

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Notes on Transliterations and Translations
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1: Sultan Abdülhamid II’s Yıldız Palace
  12. Chapter 2: Yıldız Kiosk and the Queen Mothers
  13. Chapter 3: Yıldız and Its Gardeners
  14. Chapter 4: The Architecture of Yıldız Mountain
  15. Chapter 5: The Last Photograph Album of the Hamidian Palace
  16. Coda: Palace Mosque, Palace Theater
  17. Notes
  18. Selected Bibliography
  19. Index