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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     King, Charles, 1967- author.     Subjects     Pera Palas Oteli (Istanbul, Turkey) -- History -- 20th century.     City and town life -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 20th century.     Social change -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 20th century.     Cosmopolitanism -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 20th century.     Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- 20th century.     Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      King, Charles, 1967- author.       by title:      Midnight at the Pera...         MARC Display

Midnight at the Pera Palace [electronic resource] : the birth of modern Istanbul / Charles King. by King, Charles, 1967- author. [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2014. Subjects Pera Palas Oteli (Istanbul, Turkey) -- History -- 20th century.   City and town life -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 20th century.   Social change -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 20th century.   Cosmopolitanism -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 20th century.   Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- 20th century.   Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.   Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=273EB6C9-3B7F-4A07-8823-AE868AC451BC This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/1946685-MidnightAtThePeraPalace.wma Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1946685-MidnightAtThePeraPalace.mp3 Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{273EB6C9-3B7F-4A07-8823-AE868AC451BC}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781483049366 (electronic audio bk.) 1483049361 (electronic audio bk.) Description:  1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital Requests:  0 Summary:  At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul--an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city--people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs--a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests. With beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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