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100 1  Hughes, Bettany,|eauthor. 
245 10 Istanbul :|ba tale of three cities /|cBettany Hughes. 
250    First Da Capo Press edition. 
264  1 Boston :|bDa Capo Press,|c2017. 
300    xxix, 800 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 638-763) and 
       index. 
520    From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names-
       -Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea
       and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway 
       between East and West, North and South, it has been the 
       capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires.
       For much of its history it was the very center of the 
       world, known simply as "The City," but, as Bettany Hughes 
       reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a global story. 
       In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling 
       historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, 
       through the many incarnations of one of the world's 
       greatest cities--exploring the ways that Istanbul's 
       influence has spun out to shape the wider world. Hughes 
       investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the 
       story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans,
       but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men 
       whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented 
       Istanbul. 
651  0 Istanbul (Turkey)|xHistory.