TY - BOOK AU - T�urker,Deniz TI - The Accidental Palace: The Making of Y�ld�z in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul T2 - Buildings, landscapes, and societies SN - 9780271094267 AV - DR736 .T87 2023 U1 - 949.61/8 23/eng/20220816 PY - 2023///] CY - University Park, Pennsylvania PB - The Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Abd�ulhamid KW - Y�ld�z Saray� (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - History KW - Architecture, Ottoman KW - Turkey KW - Istanbul KW - 19th century KW - Palaces KW - Landscape architecture KW - Royal gardens KW - ARCHITECTURE / History / Romanticism KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Islamic art & architecture KW - Ottoman art & architecture KW - Ottoman palaces KW - Tanzimat KW - Y�ld�z KW - chalets and cottages KW - empire and representation KW - garden and landscape studies KW - gender and representation KW - global architecture KW - history of prefabrication KW - nineteenth-century photography and the Middle East N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3642706 ER -