TY  - BOOK
ED  - Herzog, Christoph
ED  - Wittmann, Richard
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019//
TI  - İstanbul - Kushta - Constantinople: narratives of identity in the Ottoman capital, 1830-1930
T3  - Life narratives of the Ottoman realm individual and empire in the Near East
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
KW  - Istanbul (Turkey)
KW  - History
KW  - Biography
KW  - Sources
AB  - "Istanbul - Kushta - Constantinople presents thirteen studies that draw on contemporary life narratives that shed light on little explored aspects of nineteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul. As a broad category of personal writing that goes beyond the traditional confines of the autobiography, life narratives range from memoirs, letters, reports, travelogues and descriptions of daily life in the city and its different neighborhoods. By focusing on individual experiences and perspectives, life narratives allow the historian to transcend rigid political narratives and to recover lost voices, especially of those underrepresented groups, including women and members of non-Muslim communities. The studies of this volume focus on a variety of narratives produced by Muslim and Christian women, by non-Muslims and Muslims, as well as by natives and outsiders alike
SN  - 9781138631311
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Christoph Herzog and Richard Wittmann
ID  - 1031042407
ER  -