Cultures in Dialogue: First Series – serie
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Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women
New Introduction by Yiorgos Kalogeras
Inbunden, 2004
1389 kr
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Born as a Greek Ottoman in Istanbul, Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946) moved to America where she became a journalist and novelist, revisiting Turkey to write several books about the twilight of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the Turkish Republic. She based this, her first book, on …
Memoirs of Halide Edib
New Introduction by Hulya Adak
Inbunden, 2004
1406 kr
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A prominent novelist, social activist, journalist, and nationalist, Halide Edib Adivar (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. Memoirs is the first book in her two volume English-language autobiography, published in 1926, while she and her …
In the Palaces of the Sultan
New Introduction by Teresa Heffernan
Häftad, 2005
661 kr
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As Anna Bowman Dodd (1855-1929), a New York travel writer and journalist, journeyed to Istanbul with the American Ambassador to France she embarked on a detailed account of the city and its people. Interested in documenting the changes in Turkey brought about by the "embrace" of modernity and …
Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople
Häftad, 2005
727 kr
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In this diary recording two voyages to Constantinople, Lady Annie Brassey demonstrates her keen eye for human interest and narrative detail. The modern reader will glimpse natural wonders and cultural distinctions of Portuagal, Spain, Moroco, Italy, Greece, and Turkey during the mid-1870s.
Turkish Woman's European Impressions
New Introduction by Reina Lewis
Häftad, 2005
727 kr
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Born into the Ottoman Muslim elite, Zeyneb Hanoum and her sister Melek Hanoum were given a Western-style education by their progressive father, who expected them subsequently to live the segregated lives of Ottoman ladies. Rebelling, the sisters collaborated with the French author Pierre Loti, …
