Constantinople : the city of the sultans /

Constantinople : the city of the sultans /

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Author / Creator:Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916, author.
Imprint:Boston : Estes and Lauriat, publishers, [1895]
copyright 1895
Description:iv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 309 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Travel.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- History.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Pictorial works.
Turkey -- Istanbul.
Photogravures (prints) -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1895.
History.
Pictorial works.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1927354
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Varying Form of Title:City of the sultans
Other authors / contributors:Estes & Lauriat, publisher.
Notes:Issued in a slipcase.
Includes index.
Plates are photogravures accompanied by semi-transparent guard sheets with captions.
Summary:A history and contemporary cultural commentary by author and traveler Clement. The history includes extensive quotations from other sources, which Clement wove together with her own observations and romantic commentary. After recounting the history of the city from 324 to 1895, Clement includes descriptions of St. Sophia, the antiquities of the city, shops and bazaars, the habits of Turkish ladies (probably upper- and middle-class women), funeral customs, birth, circumcision, marriage customs, "superstitions" and other Islam-specific cultural practices, and finally a chapter on contemporary education.
Other form:Online version: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916. Constantinople. Boston : Estes and Lauriat, ©1895

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