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092 0  956.1|bengelska 
100 1  King, Charles,|d1967- 
245 10 Midnight at the pera palace :|bthe birth of modern 
       Istanbul /|cCharles King 
264    New York :|bW W Norton,|c2015 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
520    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 largest city people were looking 
       toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul
       was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as
       well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted 
       by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the 
       trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, 
       British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs a 
       multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders 
       and ne er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands
       of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through 
       Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John 
       XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel,
       so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted
       a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying 
       guests. In beguiling prose and rich character portraits, 
       Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a 
       storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped 
       the meaning of cosmopolitanism 
610 20 Pera Palas Oteli (Istanbul, Turkey)|xHistory|y20th century
610 27 Pera Palas Oteli (Istanbul, Turkey)|2fast 
648  7 1900 - 1999|2fast 
650  0 City and town life|zTurkey|zIstanbul|xHistory|y20th 
       century 
650  0 Social change|zTurkey|zIstanbul|xHistory|y20th century 
650  0 Cosmopolitanism|zTurkey|zIstanbul|xHistory|y20th century 
650  7 Samhällsförändring|2sao 
650  7 Historia|2sao 
650  7 City and town life.|2fast 
650  7 Cosmopolitanism.|2fast 
650  7 Manners and customs.|2fast 
650  7 Social change.|2fast 
650  7 Social conditions.|2fast 
651  0 Istanbul (Turkey)|xHistory|y20th century 
651  0 Istanbul (Turkey)|xSocial life and customs|y20th century 
651  0 Istanbul (Turkey)|xSocial conditions|y20th century 
651  7 Turkiet|zIstanbul|2sao 
651  7 Turkey|zIstanbul 
655  7 History.|2fast 
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