Istanbul Households
Author: Alan Duben
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-08
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521523035
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Imagining the Turkish House
Author: Carel Bertram
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0292748450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Houses can become poetic expressions of longing for a lost past, voices of a lived present, and dreams of an ideal future." Carel Bertram discovered this truth when she went to Turkey in the 1990s and began asking people about their memories of "the Turkish house." The fondness and nostalgia with which people recalled the distinctive wooden houses that were once ubiquitous throughout the Ottoman Empire made her realize that "the Turkish house" carries rich symbolic meaning. In this delightfully readable book, Bertram considers representations of the Turkish house in literature, art, and architecture to understand why the idea of the house has become such a potent signifier of Turkish identity. Bertram's exploration of the Turkish house shows how this feature of Ottoman culture took on symbolic meaning in the Turkish imagination as Turkey became more Westernized and secular in the early decades of the twentieth century. She shows how artists, writers, and architects all drew on the memory of the Turkish house as a space where changing notions of spirituality, modernity, and identity—as well as the social roles of women and the family—could be approached, contested, revised, or embraced during this period of tumultuous change.
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
Author: Suad Joseph
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 873
ISBN-13: 9004128182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily, Law and Politics, Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, brings together over 360 entries on women, family, law, politics, and Islamic cultures around the world.
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity
Author: Carter V. Findley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0300152620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook Description: Publication Date: August 30, 2011. "Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity" reveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish history. As mounting threats to imperial survival necessitated dynamic responses, ethnolinguistic and religious identities inspired alternative strategies for engaging with modernity. A radical, secularizing current of change competed with a conservative, Islamically committed current. Crises sharpened the differentiation of the two streams, forcing choices between them. The radical current began with the formation of reformist governmental elites and expanded with the advent of 'print capitalism', symbolized by the privately owned, Ottoman-language newspapers. The radicals engineered the 1908 Young Turk revolution, ruled empire and republic until 1950, made secularism a lasting 'belief system', and still retain powerful positions. The conservative current gained impetus from three history-making Islamic renewal movements, those of Mevlana Halid, Said Nursi, and Fethullah Gulen. Powerful under the empire, Islamic conservatives did not regain control of government until the 1980s. By then they, too, had their own influential media. Findley's reassessment of political, economic, social and cultural history reveals the dialectical interaction between radical and conservative currents of change, which alternately clashed and converged to shape late Ottoman and republican Turkish history.
The Ottoman House
Author: S. Ireland
Publisher: British Institute at Ankara
Published: 1998-12-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1912090619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeemingly contradictory ideas of privacy and community dominate Ottoman cities. While houses are internally divided to guard female modesty behind a frontage studded with peep-holes, streets in cities like Amasya are often bridged by first-floor passageways between different houses. This book contains 17 papers by architects and archaeologists looking at how the Ottoman house was structured, how it has varied over time and space, and how surviving examples are faring in a world of breeze-block construction. Although the examples discussed are all Near Eastern, and mostly from Turkey, the revelations this book contains about structuring principles will make it a valuable companion to understanding architectural relics from all over the Ottoman Empire.
A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul
Author: Cem Behar
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0791487032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining the vivid and colorful detail of a micro-history with a wider historical perspective, this groundbreaking study looks at the urban and social history of a small neighborhood community (a mahalle) of Ottoman Istanbul, the Kasap İlyas. Drawing on exceptionally rich historical documentation starting in the early sixteenth century, Cem Behar focuses on how the Kasap İlyas mahalle came to mirror some of the overarching issues of the capital city of the Ottoman Empire. Also considered are other issues central to the historiography of cities, such as rural migration and urban integration of migrants, including avenues for professional integration and the solidarity networks migrants formed, and the role of historical guilds and non-guild labor, the ancestor of the "informal" or "marginal" sector found today in less developed countries.
Narratives of the History of the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani Family in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts
Author: Barbara Henning
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 758
ISBN-13: 3863095510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily Politics
Author: Paul Ginsborg
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 0300112114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the convulsive history of the 20th century's first five decades, seen through the lens of families and family life In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at center stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation states in the throes of dramatic transition: Russia in revolutionary passage from Empire to Soviet Union; Turkey in transition from Ottoman Empire to modern Republic; Italy, from liberalism to fascism; Spain during the Second Republic and Civil War; and Germany from the failure of the Weimar Republic to the National Socialist state. Ginsborg explores the effects of political upheaval and radical social policies on family life and, in turn, the impact of families on revolutionary change itself. Families, he shows, do not simply experience the effects of political power, but are themselves actors in the historical process. The author brings human and personal elements to the fore with biographical details and individual family histories, along with a fascinating selection of family photographs and portraits. From WWI--an indelible backdrop and imprinting force on the first half of the twentieth century--to post-war dictatorial power and family engineering initiatives, to the conclusion of WWII, this book shines new light on the profound relations among revolution, dictatorship, and family.
The Cambridge History of Turkey
Author: Kate Fleet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780521620956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 3 of The Cambridge History of Turkey covers the period from 1603 to 1839.
About Turkey
Author: Rashid Ergener
Publisher: Pilgrims Process, Inc.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780971060968
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