Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924

Philip Mansel

Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924

Philip Mansel

528 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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At once scholarly and entertaining, Constantinople depicts the Ottoman capital as a place of shifting boundaries and categories. It was the capital of both Islam and the Orthodox church, part of the "system of Europe" and a magnet for people and i...

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