Surviving Istanbul - Struggles, Feasts and Calamities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenh Centuries

Prof.; Dr.; Suraiya Faroqhi’nin on yedinci ve on sekizinci yüzyıl İstanbul’undaki mücadeleler, şenlikler ve felaketler üzerine yazdığı Türkçe makalelerden oluşan kitap.; In this curation of her recent articles, Suraiya Faroqhi takes the reader to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul, with occasional forays into earlier and later periods.; The city’s “ordinary” inhabitants take center stage.; While epidemics and large-scale conflagrations might wreck lives overnight, the residents of Istanbul worked hard to keep alive and feed their families.; From the foods eaten and the streets traversed, to the miseries endured because of recurring fires, Surviving Istanbul illustrates a city of immigrants, slaves, artisans, and rural dwellers supplying the urban markets, with all the struggles that living in (and around) the city entailed.; However, this was a population of youngsters, who whenever possible were good at finding opportunities for fun and games, at public festivities or when taking a swim in a river emptying into the Bosporus.; Using archival and narrative sources, especially the impressions of Evliya Çelebi (1611–about 1685), this book is a mosaic depicting what daily life may have looked like in pre-modern Istanbul.; Suraiya Faroqhi is a professor of history at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul.; Ürün Adı: Surviving Istanbul - Struggles, Feasts and Calamities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenh Centuries Ürün Kodu: 9786258022407 Yazar: Suraiya Faroqhi Basım Yılı: 2023 Kapak Türü: Ciltli Sayfa Sayısı: 448 Kağıt Cinsi: 2. Hamur Çevirmen: