{"product_id":"the-accidental-palace-the-making-of-y-305-ld-305-z-in-nineteenth-century-istanbul","title":"The Accidental Palace: The Making of Y\u0026#305;ld\u0026#305;z in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of Yıldız Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul's urban memory. At its peak, however, Yıldız was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire's vast bureaucratic apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing a chronological arc from 1795 to 1909, \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental Palace\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the site developed from a rural estate of the queen mothers into the heart of Ottoman government. Nominally, the palace may have belonged to the rarefied realm of the Ottoman elite, but as Deniz Türker reveals, the development of the site was profoundly connected to Istanbul's urban history and to changing conceptions of empire, absolutism, diplomacy, reform, and the public. Türker explores these connections, framing Yıldız Palace and its grounds not only as a hermetic expression of imperial identity but also as a product of an increasingly globalized consumer culture, defined by access to a vast number of goods and services across geographical boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from archival research conducted in Yıldız's imperial library, \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental Palace\u003c\/i\u003e provides important insights into a decisive moment in the palace's architectural and landscape history and demonstrates how Yıldız was inextricably tied to ideas of sovereignty, visibility, taste, and self-fashioning. It will appeal to specialists in the art, architecture, politics, and culture of nineteenth-century Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDeniz Türker\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMuqarnas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Islamic Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390284075282,"sku":"9780271093918","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_623fd26a-7486-49bf-b4e8-2946eb7b6962.jpg?v=1728944003","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-accidental-palace-the-making-of-y-305-ld-305-z-in-nineteenth-century-istanbul","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}