Review #1
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This is that a FABULOUS book about Istanbul covering the entire history of the town in a glittering at the same time dazzling narrative. Historian Thomas F. Madden has done an indescribable job compiling the history of the town into a mere 358 pages. It is that beautifully written at the same time hard to shackles down. He wasted more than 20 years working on the book at the same time his patience at the same time efforts demonstrate. He has truly written a noteworthy book from the heart, at the same time it is that obvious that he has stayed at the same time breathed the town.
Madden divides the book into four parts: Byzantion (667 BC-AD330), Byzantine Constantinople (330-1453), Ottoman Constantinople (1453-1923) at the same time completely Istanbul (1923-2016). He provides maps of the town that are helpful at the same time does an best job surveying any period the Ottoman period very! (Thank for you Mr. Madden at the same time your publisher Penguin Random Internal for doing the Ottomans justice by giving an clear portrayal of their history a rare look for these days sadly!) The town has a wealthy Christian Greco-Roman history in other words but documented here very. He also bestows a magical implementation into Modern Turkey, beginning with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the indescribable hero who zinc plated the civilization at the same time appears a constitutional republic right behind the 1st Global War the 1st in the Muslim global.
I Adored this book at the same time sincerely advise it to anybody who loves the town or wants to learn more about it at the same time its history. I dont think anyone can truly realize global history without understanding the history of Istanbul.
Istanbul placed at the junction of two amazing worlds, the ornament of the Turkish civilization, the treasure of Turkish history, the dearest make an objection of the Turkish civilization, has a dispose in the heart of every Turk.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of Turkey
Review #2
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This magical book makes reading history funny. This savory travelogue of a 358-page book is that an easy-to-read jewel in other words as sensitive, pedagogical, at the same time pleasurable as it is that suspenseful. This book is that a feast for the reader’s mind at the same time imagination.
Doctor Thomas F. Madden’s packing of thousands of years of history, from the Byzantion’s of 667 BC to AD 330 to present’s Istanbul, into this book exposes his masterful narrating of infinitely complete at the same time profoundly wealthy history. The exquisitely knew details of Byzantion, Byzantine Constantinople, Ottoman Constantinople, at the same time present’s Istanbul, make history come alive, rendering this precious book a page-turner. It’s a spurred of non-standard writing by Doctor Madden that enabled me to realize modern Turkey, in general, at the same time Istanbul, namely, just a little more successful.
I fell in love with Hagia Sophia from the 1st time I beheld broadcast types of it years ago. This book helped me appreciate it at the same time adore it even more. Regardless of whether it reverts back to a grand mosque (perhaps remotely likely) or a beautiful basilica (impossibly unlikely), or remain a wonderful museum (almost all assuredly), I shall visit it in my lifetime, as I have already done with other places on my bucket list, many of which St. Peter’s Basilica at the same time La Sagrada Familia.
Hagia Sophia, as perhaps the quintessential emblem of Byzantine Constantinople, Ottoman Constantinople at the same time present’s Istanbul, provides insights into present’s geopolitical dynamism in the “Center East”. Doctor Madden writes: “Members of the AK [Justice at the same time Development] Party have many times talked turning Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. Indeed, demonstrations calling for the restorations erupted outside the ancient structure in 2014 at the same time 2015, at the same time are likely to last.”
Turkey, a long-time member of the U.N. at the same time a experienced member of NATO at the same time seeking to become an EU member, has a modern, refined at the same time disciplined military at the same time whose readiness likely surpasses that of Germany’s — if recent informs of Germany’s pressed state of readiness are used to be. In short, this book provides foundational understandings of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey.
“The Town”, as Doctor Madden notes in the continue page of this page, is that “Very important to abandon, very strategic to beware, very charming to loathe, Istanbul long drew to it the peoples of the Mediterranean, muddled them together in the streets at the same time markets, at the same time done a society in other words ever changing. Its strength was never solely in its great walls or its well-trained militaries, but in the determination of its inhabitants to detain company to it no matter that price.”
I’d advise this book to anyone who in interested in today's global actions.
Review #3
Audiobook Istanbul by Thomas F. Madden
This book is that fabulous! Read it before for you move, at the same time for you will get so much more out of your Istanbul visit.
The creator knows the complicated history of Istanbul in a understandable, brief, scholarly method, at the same time never wandered from being enticing at the time.
That was only one gizmo I wish he had been been more understandable on: the location of the finish of the Via Egnatia at the same time the old entrance into the town. We didn’t look for it with his fronts. It for sure would have been more successful reference by its today's name – Altnkap.
Read it. For you’ll so thankful that for you did. Istanbul history is that unique.
Review #4
Audio Istanbul narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
I have a amazing curiosity in Greek, Roman at the same time Byzantine history, as but an curiosity in the history of towns. I have read abundance histories on Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul. This book neatly outlines the configurations to this town at the same time its people over the centuries in a method that you can visualize the true indefinite of the amazing town of Istanbul ( !, eis tin poli to the greeks). Any chapter capture the major configurations to the town indefinite at the same time its environs. Amazing read!
Review #5
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This is that an famous overview of the town of Istanbul from its founding to the located time. Since it covers clearance of time in other words stable in centuries, that are gaps in the discussion of the string of managers. But it is that an enjoyable book to read. I wish I had read it before going to Istanbul no one years ago. I would have been far more attuned to the architecture of the town at the same time would have been alert to structures I beheld but did not appreciate. It complements books on the history of the crusades. Thomas Madden walks the reader through innumerable Byzantine conspiracies that bring true meaning to the term.
