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AMES 127: A City of Two Continents: Istanbul: A City of Two Continents: Istanbul

Key Materials

History & Civilization:

Çiçek, Kemal.
The great Ottoman-Turkish civilisation.
Ankara : Yeni Türkiye, 2000.
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room DR486 .G74 2000 4 vols. Check availability @ DukeCall Number: DR590 .O99 1968
Derviş, Pelin, et al.
Becoming Istanbul : an encyclopedia.
Istanbul: Garanti Gallery, 2008.
Perkins/Bostock Library NA5870.A1 B43 2008 Check availability @ Duke
Göçek, Fatma Müge.
Rise of the bourgeoisie, demise of empire : Ottoman westernization and social change.
New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Perkins/Bostock Library HN656.5.A8 G63 1996 Check availability @ Duke
TOC: Introduction Class Formation and the Ottoman Empire (p. 3) 1. Ottoman Structure, Social Groups, and Westernization (p. 20) 2. War, Ottoman Officials, and Western Institutions (p. 44) 3. Trade, Ottoman Merchants, and Western Goods: Rise of the Commercial Bourgeoisie (p. 87) 4. Civilization, Ottoman Intellectuals, and Western Ideas: Polarization Within the Bourgeoisie (p. 117) Conclusion the Emergence of a Bifurcated Ottoman Bourgeoisie (p. 138) Appendix (p. 143) Notes (p. 145) References (p. 185) Index (p. 209)
Güzel, Hasan Celâl, et al.
The Turks
Ankara : Yeni Türkiye, 2002.
Perkins/Bostock International & Area Studies Reading Room DS26 .T874 2002 6 vols. Check availability @ Duke
İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin.
History of the Ottoman state, society & civilisation.
İstanbul: Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture, 2001.
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room DR486 .O82513 2001 v.1-2 Check availability @ Duke
İnalcık, Halil.
Ottoman civilization.
Ankara : Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture, 2003-2004.
Perkins/Bostock International & Area Studies Reading Room DR486 .O886 2003 2 vols. Check availability @ Duke
İnalcık, Halil.
The Ottoman Empire: the classical age, 1300-1600.
New York, Praeger Publishers, 1973.
Perkins/Bostock Library DR486 .I5 1973b Check availability @ Duke
Koçu, Reşad Ekrem .
İstanbul ansiklopedisi.
İstanbul: İstanbul Ansiklopedisi ve Neşriyat Kollektif Şirketi, 1958.
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room DR719 .I68 1958 v.1-11 Check availability @ Duke
Table of Contents: v. 1. Aba, abacılar-Alafranga Baloz.--v. 2. Alageyik sokağa-Aşirefendi Kütübhânesi.--v. 3. Aşiret mektebi-Baba.--v. 4. Baba-Barbunya balığı.--v. 5. Bardakçı sokağı-Berduş.--v. 6. Boğaziçindeki iskele, kayık ve sandalları-Cemil.--v. 7. Cemil Bey-Çiray.--v. 8. Çiroz-Dişbuğdaycılar Sokağı.--v. 9. Dişci-Erişteci Sokağı.--v. 10. Eritmek-Fırın.--v. 11. Fırın-Gökçınar.
Kuran, Timur.
Mahkeme kayıitları ışığında 17. yüzyıl İstanbul'unda sosyo-ekonomik yaşam = Social and economic life in seventeenth-century Istanbul : glimpses from court records.
İstanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası, 2010-
Perkins/Bostock Library HC493.I85 M34 2010 v.1-8 Check availability @ Duke
Table of Contents: cilt 1. Esnaf ve loncalar. Hıristiyan ve Yahudi cemaat işleri. Yabancılar = vol. 1. Guilds and guildsmen. Communal affairs of Christians and Jews. Foreigners -- cilt 2. Ticari ortaklıklar = vol. 2 Commercial partnerships -- cilt 3. Devlet-toplum ilişkileri, 1602-19 = vol. 3. State-subject relations, 1602-19 -- cilt 4. Devlet-toplum ilişkileri, 1661-97 = vol. 4. State-subject relations, 1661-97 -- cilt 5-6. Vakiflar (1606-17) = v. 5-6. Waqfs, 1606-17.v

Cinema:

Arslan, Savaş.
Cinema in Turkey : a new critical history.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Lilly Library PN1993.5.T8 A77 2011 Check availability @ Duke
Table of Contents: Introduction -- Pre-yeşilçam : cinema in Turkey until the late 1940s -- Early yeşilçam : the advent of yeşilçam in the 1950s -- High yeşilçam I : industry and dubbing -- High yeşilçam II : genres and films -- Late yeşilçam : melting in the 1980s -- Postmortem for yeşilçam : post-yeşilçam, or the new cinema of Turkey.
Ellinger, Ekkehard.
Turkish cinema 1970-2007 : a bibliography and analysis.
Frankfurt am M. ; New York: P. Lang, 2008.
Lilly Library PN1993.5.T8 E43 2008 Check availability @ Duke
Suner, Asuman.
New Turkish cinema : belonging, identity and memory.
London ; New York; New York: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Lilly Library PN1993.5.T8 S86 2010 Check availability @ Duke

Photography:

Güler, Ara.
Ara Güler.
Beyoğlu, İstanbul: Antartist Yayıncılık, 2004.
Lilly Library TR654 .G84 2004 Check availability @ Duke
Güler, Ara.
Ara Güler's Istanbul.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2009.
Perkins/Bostock Library R724 .G854 2009 Check availability @ Duke
Öztuncay, Bahattin.
The photographers of Constantinople : pioneers, studios and artists from 19th century Istanbul.
Istanbul: Aygaz, 2003.
Perkins/Bostock Library TR111 .O498 2003 2 vols. Check availability @ Duke
Table of Contents: 1. Text & photographs -- 2. The album.
Webb, Alex.
Istanbul : city of a hundred names: photographs by Alex Webb; essay by Orhan Pamuk.
New York : Aperture ; London : Thames & Hudson, c2007.
Perkins/Bostock Library DR724 .W43 2007 Check availability @ Duke

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See also: Library of Congress: Abdul Hamid II Collection, Library of Congress: Matson Photograph Collection

Special Collections:

Sebah & Joaillier.
Panorama de Constantinople : pris de la tour de Galata
ca. 1878-ca. 1890.
Rubenstein Library E f#1559 Rare Books Check availability @ Duke
Summary: Panoramic vista of Constantinople in an accordion-fold format encompassing approx. 270 degrees, taken from the Galata Tower looking across the quarter of Galata towards the Tophane district and the Bosporus beyond, then to the outer Golden Horn harbor and the tip of the Istanbul peninsula with the Palace of Topkapi, then sweeping across the city inland along the Golden Horn waterfront towards the district of Eyüp.
Turkish political poster collection, 1945-1978 and undated.
Rubenstein Library Ovsz. Box XX OC:VIII:XX Fully Processed: Folder 1-4
Description: see Finding Aid

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