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To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
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Title: To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
Author: Alexander Christie-Miller
ISBN: 9781639367344
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: New
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Asian History 1588389
Publisher Description:
A journey along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul reveals the story of Turkey's history and becomes a mirror of its present--as well as a shadow of its future. Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at the center of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental decay, rapacious development, and tightening authoritarianism straining its social fabric to breaking point, it represents the precipitous moment civilizations around the world are currently facing. In and around its crumbling Byzantine-era fortifications, Alexander Christie-Miller meets people who are experiencing the looming crisis and fighting back, sometimes triumphing despite the odds. To the City seamlessly blends two narratives: the story of Turkey's tumultuous recent past told through the lives of those who live around the walls, and the story of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II's siege and capture of the city in 1453. That event still looms large in Turkey, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan like a latter-day sultan invokes its memory as part of his effort to transform the country in an echo of its imperial past. This is a meditation on the soul of Istanbul, a paean to its resilience and fortitude. To the City takes us on a narrative journey and along the way, we witness danger, beauty and hope.
Author: Alexander Christie-Miller
ISBN: 9781639367344
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher
Asian History 1588389
Publisher Description:
A journey along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul reveals the story of Turkey's history and becomes a mirror of its present--as well as a shadow of its future. Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at the center of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental decay, rapacious development, and tightening authoritarianism straining its social fabric to breaking point, it represents the precipitous moment civilizations around the world are currently facing. In and around its crumbling Byzantine-era fortifications, Alexander Christie-Miller meets people who are experiencing the looming crisis and fighting back, sometimes triumphing despite the odds. To the City seamlessly blends two narratives: the story of Turkey's tumultuous recent past told through the lives of those who live around the walls, and the story of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II's siege and capture of the city in 1453. That event still looms large in Turkey, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan like a latter-day sultan invokes its memory as part of his effort to transform the country in an echo of its imperial past. This is a meditation on the soul of Istanbul, a paean to its resilience and fortitude. To the City takes us on a narrative journey and along the way, we witness danger, beauty and hope.
