Turquerie And The Politics Of Representation 1728 876
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Turquerie And The Politics Of Representation 1728 876
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Author : Nebahat Avcioglu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Turquerie And The Politics Of Representation 1728 876 written by Nebahat Avcioglu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Architecture categories.
In this first full-length study devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Nebahat Avcioglu rethinks the question of cultural frontiers not as separations but as a rapport of heterogeneities. Reclaiming turquerie as cross-cultural art from the confines of the inconsequential exoticism it is often reduced to, Avcioglu analyses hitherto neglected images, designs and constructions; and links Western interest in the Ottoman Empire to notions of self-representation and national politics. In investigating why and to what effect Europeans turned to the Turk for inspiration, Avcioglu provides a far-reaching cultural reinterpretation of art and architecture in this period. Presented as a series of case studies focusing on three specific building types?kiosks, mosques, and baths?chosen on the basis that each represents the first full-fledged manifestations of their respective genres to be constructed in Western Europe, the study delves into the cultural politics of architectural forms and styles. The author argues that the appropriation of those building types was neither accidental, nor did it merely reflect European domination of another culture. The process was essentially dialectical, and contributed to transculturation in both the West and the East.
Turquerie And The Politics Of Representation 1728 876
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Author : Nebahat Avcioglu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Turquerie And The Politics Of Representation 1728 876 written by Nebahat Avcioglu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Architecture categories.
In this first full-length study devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Nebahat Avcioglu rethinks the question of cultural frontiers not as separations but as a rapport of heterogeneities. Reclaiming turquerie as cross-cultural art from the confines of the inconsequential exoticism it is often reduced to, Avcioglu analyses hitherto neglected images, designs and constructions; and links Western interest in the Ottoman Empire to notions of self-representation and national politics. In investigating why and to what effect Europeans turned to the Turk for inspiration, Avcioglu provides a far-reaching cultural reinterpretation of art and architecture in this period. Presented as a series of case studies focusing on three specific building types?kiosks, mosques, and baths?chosen on the basis that each represents the first full-fledged manifestations of their respective genres to be constructed in Western Europe, the study delves into the cultural politics of architectural forms and styles. The author argues that the appropriation of those building types was neither accidental, nor did it merely reflect European domination of another culture. The process was essentially dialectical, and contributed to transculturation in both the West and the East.
Turkish Style
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Author : Stefanos Yerasimos
language : en
Publisher: Vendome Press
Release Date : 1992-11
Turkish Style written by Stefanos Yerasimos and has been published by Vendome Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-11 with Architecture categories.
A stunning crystallization of a tradition that spans 10,000 years, the rise and fall of mighty empires, and influences from Africa to the Balkans, this volume combines a comfortably erudite text with 300 color illustrations to reveal the interiors and exteriors of Turkish houses throughout the country's regions as well as in Istanbul. 10.25x11.25". Distributed in the US and Canada by Rizzoli. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Jem Sultan
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Author : John Freely
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Jem Sultan written by John Freely and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
"'Bird of my soul, be patient of thy cage ...' So wrote the young Turkish poet-prince, Jem Sultan, from captivity. Within years Jem would be dead : poisoned, it was said, by the infamous Borgia pope, Alexander VI." "Jem, born in 1459, was one of the wonders of Renaissance Europe. Son of the Grand Turk, Mehmet the Conqueror, after losing a war of succession to his brother he fled to the West to pursue his claim from exile. Instead he became a diplomatic pawn, falling into the hands of warring knights, emperors, popes and kings. Jem was bought and sold and passed around the courts of Europe like a caged bird of paradise. All desired ownership of the Turkish prince as a talisman against Ottoman expansion, and as a weighty trophy against European rivals." "Surrounded by his imperial train, the young prince maintained his dignity throughout. His poetry, sporting prowess, romance aura and majestic good looks caused a stir wherever he went, inspiring minstrels' songs and folklore. Today Jem is almost forgotten in the West, but in Turkey he is still a heroic figure, the gallant poet-prince who never grows old, his tomb a place of pilgrimage." "John Freely tells the story of Jem from his childhood in the palace of the Ottoman Empire, through to his exile, captivity, attempts to return to Turkey and his death at the age of thirty-five." --Book Jacket.
Rethinking World History
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Author : Marshall G. S. Hodgson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-05-28
Rethinking World History written by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-05-28 with History categories.
Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history - global history - and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history.
Tocqueville In The Ottoman Empire
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Author : Ariel Salzmann
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004
Tocqueville In The Ottoman Empire written by Ariel Salzmann and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Political Science categories.
Based on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking system.
The Sultan Of Vezirs
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Author : Theoharis Stavrides
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-04
The Sultan Of Vezirs written by Theoharis Stavrides and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-04 with History categories.
Mahmud Pasha Angelovic served as Grand Vezir under Sultan Mehmed II, in the years following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, which were marked by an extensive imperial project, transforming the Ottoman principality into an empire. This book attempts to piece together the available evidence on Mahmud Pasha's Byzantine descent and family network, as well as his multi-faceted contribution to the founding of the new empire, through military leadership, diplomatic practices and architectural and literary patronage, considering also his execution and the creation of a posthumous legend presenting him as a martyr. Using Ottoman, Greek and Western sources, as well as archival material, this study focuses on the period of transition from Byzantine to Ottoman Empire and would be of interest to historians and other specialists studying that period.
The Soul Of Napoleon
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Author : Léon Bloy
language : en
Publisher: Sunny Lou Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-05
The Soul Of Napoleon written by Léon Bloy and has been published by Sunny Lou Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-05 with categories.
The Soul of Napoleon (Lʼâme de Napoléon, originally), by Léon Bloy, is a poem in prose on the great generalʼs achievements and greatness, but it is more than that, it is a re-assessment of his significance from a Catholic and a Catholic eschatological point of view, as perhaps no other writer than Léon Bloy could have put down on paper. Written in 1912, it is also, like many of Léon Bloyʼs writings, prophetic in an eerie way of near-term events to come, a prefiguration of both WWI and beyond. "The history of Napoleon is quite certainly the most unknown of all histories. Books that claim to recount it are innumerable, and there is no end to documents of every sort. In reality, Napoleon is perhaps less known to us than Alexander and Sennacherib. The more one studies, the more one discovers that he is the man whom nothing resembles and thatʼs all there is. Itʼs the unfathomable gulf. One knows the dates, one knows the deeds, victories or disasters, one knows, a bit or quite a bit, of the famous negotiations that are, today, merely dust. His name alone remains, his prodigious Name, and when it is pronounced by the poorest of all children, it is enough to make a great man blush, no matter whom. Napoleon is the Face of God in darkness." "There is, in the humblest churches of France, a poor lamp lit night and day, before the Holy Sacrament of the Altar. The thought crossed my mind, absurd perhaps, that that lamp is something like Napoleonʼs confidence."
Quakers In Ireland 1654 1900
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Author : Isabel Grubb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Quakers In Ireland 1654 1900 written by Isabel Grubb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Society of Friends categories.
Barbary And Enlightenment
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Author : Ann Thomson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1987
Barbary And Enlightenment written by Ann Thomson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the context of the different eighteenth-century systems of classification of the world. We see that uncertainty as to how to classify this region, its inhabitants, its form of government and social evolution - which led to its absence from most contemporary anthropological discussions - was resolved in the early nineteenth-century with the appearance of what were to become colonial stereotypes.