On the Sultan's service : Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's memoir of the Ottoman palace, 1909-1912

Author(s)

• Uşaklıgil, Halit Ziya
• Brookes, Douglas Scott

Bibliographic Information

On the Sultan's service : Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's memoir of the Ottoman palace, 1909-1912

[translated and edited by] Douglas Scott Brookes

Indiana University Press, c2019

• : [pbk]

Other Title

Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's memoir of the Ottoman palace, 1909-1912

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]) and index

Contents of Works

• A new court for a new monarch
• Redoing the palaces
• On show
• The imperial household
• The imperial family
• Wedding vows and dueling heirs
• Papers, papers
• Mysterious yıldız, daunting Topkapı
• Coming to call
• Royal guests
• On holiday
• Maneuvering, touring
• No end to crises
• Caught in the vise
• Bringing down the curtain
• The man who would be Sultan

Details

• NCID: BC08542832
• ISBN:
  • 9780253045515
• LCCN: 2019020820
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: tur
• Place of Publication: Bloomington, Indiana
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 255 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DR583
  • DC23 : 956/.02092
  • DC23 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Uşaklıgil, Halit Ziya, 1869-1945
  • LCSH : Authors, Turkish -- 20th century -- Biography
  • LCSH : Turkey -- History -- Mehmed V, 1909-1918
  • LCSH : Turkey -- Court and courtiers