Surviving Istanbul - Struggles, Feasts and Calamities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenh Centuries [ CİLTLİ ŞÖMİZLİ ] [ İMZALI İTHAFLI ]

446 sayfa. 16x24 cm
Yayıncısının özgün şömizli cildinde. Yazarından "Keyifli okumalar dilerim, İstanbul 21 Şubat 2024" ithafıyla okuru için imzalı. Yazar imzalı nüsha ayracıyla. Metin ve görsel kısımları çok temiz durumda. İngilizce.
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In this curation of her recent articles, Suraiya Faroqhi takes the reader to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul, with occasional forays into
earlier and later periods. The city’s “ordinary” inhabitants take center stage. While epidemics and large-scale conflagrations might wreck lives overnight, the residents of Istanbul worked hard to keep alive and feed their families. From the foods eaten and the streets traversed, to the miseries endured because of recurring fires, Surviving Istanbul illustrates a city of immigrants, slaves, artisans, and rural dwellers supplying the urban markets, with all the struggles that living in (and around) the city entailed.

However, this was a population of youngsters, who whenever possible were good at find

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