On the Sultan's Service
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04550-8 (ISBN)
Translated into English for the first time, this memoir provides fascinating first-hand insight into the personalities, intrigues, and inner workings of the Ottoman palace in its final decades. Written by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, who was First Secretary to Sultan Mehmed V and would go on to be one of Turkey's most famous novelists, On the Sultan's Service makes available to English readers the remarkable account of life and work in the Ottoman palace chancery—the public, "business" side of the palace—in its final incarnation. We learn of the court's new role under this second-to-last Sultan in post-Revolution Turkey. No longer exercising political power, the palace negotiated the minefields between political factions, sought ways to unite the empire in the face of sharpening nationalist aspirations, and faced with a kind of shocked despondency the opening salvos of the wars that were to overwhelm the country. Uşaklıgil includes interviews with the Imperial family and descriptions of royal nuptials, the palaces and its visitors, and the crises that shook the court. He delivers an insightful and moving portrait of Mehmed V, the elderly gentleman who reigned over the Ottoman Empire through both Balkan Wars and World War I.
Douglas Scott Brookes teaches Ottoman Turkish at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Harem Ghosts: What One Cemetery Can Tell Us About the Ottoman Empire and The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem.
Foreword
Introduction
Maps
Timeline of Late Ottoman History
Family Tree
1. A New Court for a New Monarch
2. Redoing the Palaces
3. On Show
4. The Imperial Household
5. The Imperial Family
6. Wedding Vows and Dueling Heirs
7. Papers, Papers
8. Mysterious Yıldız, Daunting Topkapı
9. Coming to Call
10. Royal Guests
11. On Holiday
12. Maneuvering, Touring
13. No End to Crises
14. Caught in the Vise
15. Bringing Down the Curtain
16. The Man Who Would Be Sultan
Epilogue
Glossary of Names
Glossary of Terms and Places
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.02.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 53 b&w images, 7 color, 4 maps |
Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 154 x 232 mm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-04550-9 / 0253045509 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-04550-8 / 9780253045508 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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