Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul - Couverture rigide

King, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393089142 ISBN 13 : 9780393089141

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2014

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.

Yet in Istanbul-an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city-people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs-a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests.

Un mot de l'auteur :

Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University and former Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is the author of Extreme Politics: Natonalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2010), The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Black Sea: A History (Oxford University Press, 2004), and The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture (Hoover Institution Press, 2000), as well as articles and essays in Foreign Affairs, The Times Literary Supplement, and leading academic journals. He lectures widely on eastern Europe, social violence, and ethnic politics, and has worked with broadcast media including CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC, the History Channel, and MTV. A native of the Ozark hill country, King studied history and politics at the University of Arkansas and Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393089142
• ISBN 13: 9780393089141
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 480