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

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

Name: Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Philip Mansel
ISBN: 9780719568800

Philip Mansel

19/10/2006
John Murray

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Couverture de Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 par Philip Mansel

Résumé

Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. For almost five centuries Constantinople, with its enormous racial and cultural diversity, was the centre of the dramatic and often depraved story of an extraordinary dynasty.