How Long to Read The Accidental Palace

How Long Does it Take to Read The Accidental Palace?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 37 minutes to read The Accidental Palace by Deniz Türker

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This 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. Following a chronological arc from 1795 to 1909, The Accidental Palace 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. Drawn from archival research conducted in Yıldız’s imperial library, The Accidental Palace 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.

How long is The Accidental Palace?

The Accidental Palace by Deniz Türker is 618 pages long, and a total of 159,444 words.

This makes it 209% the length of the average book. It also has 195% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Accidental Palace Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 31 minutes to read The Accidental Palace aloud.

What Reading Level is The Accidental Palace?

The Accidental Palace is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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