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![Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King](https://rwszupzmsadbjqghhiwjxwntmpecjm.thestorygraph.com/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCSDQ5R0FFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--18ceaf33453aa30649055f41ec8c60865fc8e156/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Midnight%20at%20the%20Pera%20Palace-%20The%20Birth%20of%20Modern%20Istanbul.jpg)
480 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393351866
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 02 November 2015
Description
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.Yet in Istanbul--an ancient crossroads and Turkey's ...
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![Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King](https://rwszupzmsadbjqghhiwjxwntmpecjm.thestorygraph.com/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCSDQ5R0FFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--18ceaf33453aa30649055f41ec8c60865fc8e156/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Midnight%20at%20the%20Pera%20Palace-%20The%20Birth%20of%20Modern%20Istanbul.jpg)
480 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393351866
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 02 November 2015
Description
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.Yet in Istanbul--an ancient crossroads and Turkey's ...