The Accidental Palace : The Making of Y�ld�z in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul /
T�urker, Deniz,
The Accidental Palace : The Making of Y�ld�z in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul / Deniz T�urker. - 1 online resource. - Buildings, landscapes, and societies . - Buildings, landscapes, and societies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Transliterations and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Sultan Abd�ulhamid II's Y�ld�z Palace -- Chapter 2 Y�ld�z Kiosk and the Queen Mothers -- Chapter 3 Y�ld�z and Its Gardeners -- Chapter 4 The Architecture of Y�ld�z Mountain -- Chapter 5 The Last Photograph Album of the Hamidian Palace -- Coda: Palace Mosque, Palace Theater -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
This book tells the story of Y�ld�z Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul's urban memory. At its peak, however, Y�ld�z was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire's vast bureaucratic apparatus.Following a chronological arc from 1795 to 1909, The Accidental Palace shows how the site developed from a rural estate of the queen mothers into the heart of Ottoman government. Nominally, the palace may have belonged to the rarefied realm of the Ottoman elite, but as Deniz T�urker reveals, the development of the site was profoundly connected to Istanbul's urban history and to changing conceptions of empire, absolutism, diplomacy, reform, and the public. T�urker explores these connections, framing Y�ld�z Palace and its grounds not only as a hermetic expression of imperial identity but also as a product of an increasingly globalized consumer culture, defined by access to a vast number of goods and services across geographical boundaries.Drawn from archival research conducted in Y�ld�z's imperial library, The Accidental Palace provides important insights into a decisive moment in the palace's architectural and landscape history and demonstrates how Y�ld�z was inextricably tied to ideas of sovereignty, visibility, taste, and self-fashioning. It will appeal to specialists in the art, architecture, politics, and culture of nineteenth-century Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.
9780271094267 0271094265 9780271094250 0271094257
10.1515/9780271094267 doi
22573/cats5219112 JSTOR
Abd�ulhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1842-1918 --Palaces.
Y�ld�z Saray� (Istanbul, Turkey)--History.
1800-1899
Architecture, Ottoman--History--Turkey--Istanbul--19th century.
Palaces--Landscape architecture--History--Turkey--Istanbul--19th century.
Royal gardens--History--Turkey--Istanbul--19th century.
ARCHITECTURE / History / Romanticism.
Architecture, Ottoman.
Royal gardens.
Turkey--Istanbul.
Islamic art & architecture. Ottoman art & architecture. Ottoman palaces. Tanzimat. Y�ld�z. chalets and cottages. empire and representation. garden and landscape studies. gender and representation. global architecture. history of prefabrication. nineteenth-century photography and the Middle East.
History.
DR736 / .T87 2023
949.61/8
The Accidental Palace : The Making of Y�ld�z in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul / Deniz T�urker. - 1 online resource. - Buildings, landscapes, and societies . - Buildings, landscapes, and societies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Transliterations and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Sultan Abd�ulhamid II's Y�ld�z Palace -- Chapter 2 Y�ld�z Kiosk and the Queen Mothers -- Chapter 3 Y�ld�z and Its Gardeners -- Chapter 4 The Architecture of Y�ld�z Mountain -- Chapter 5 The Last Photograph Album of the Hamidian Palace -- Coda: Palace Mosque, Palace Theater -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
This book tells the story of Y�ld�z Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul's urban memory. At its peak, however, Y�ld�z was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire's vast bureaucratic apparatus.Following a chronological arc from 1795 to 1909, The Accidental Palace shows how the site developed from a rural estate of the queen mothers into the heart of Ottoman government. Nominally, the palace may have belonged to the rarefied realm of the Ottoman elite, but as Deniz T�urker reveals, the development of the site was profoundly connected to Istanbul's urban history and to changing conceptions of empire, absolutism, diplomacy, reform, and the public. T�urker explores these connections, framing Y�ld�z Palace and its grounds not only as a hermetic expression of imperial identity but also as a product of an increasingly globalized consumer culture, defined by access to a vast number of goods and services across geographical boundaries.Drawn from archival research conducted in Y�ld�z's imperial library, The Accidental Palace provides important insights into a decisive moment in the palace's architectural and landscape history and demonstrates how Y�ld�z was inextricably tied to ideas of sovereignty, visibility, taste, and self-fashioning. It will appeal to specialists in the art, architecture, politics, and culture of nineteenth-century Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.
9780271094267 0271094265 9780271094250 0271094257
10.1515/9780271094267 doi
22573/cats5219112 JSTOR
Abd�ulhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1842-1918 --Palaces.
Y�ld�z Saray� (Istanbul, Turkey)--History.
1800-1899
Architecture, Ottoman--History--Turkey--Istanbul--19th century.
Palaces--Landscape architecture--History--Turkey--Istanbul--19th century.
Royal gardens--History--Turkey--Istanbul--19th century.
ARCHITECTURE / History / Romanticism.
Architecture, Ottoman.
Royal gardens.
Turkey--Istanbul.
Islamic art & architecture. Ottoman art & architecture. Ottoman palaces. Tanzimat. Y�ld�z. chalets and cottages. empire and representation. garden and landscape studies. gender and representation. global architecture. history of prefabrication. nineteenth-century photography and the Middle East.
History.
DR736 / .T87 2023
949.61/8