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Assembling ‘Cosmopolitan’ Pera: An Infrastructural History of Late Ottoman Istanbul
In the nineteenth century, the Pera (Beyoğlu) district of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, became an internationally recognized center of commerce, finance, culture, art, and recreation, in the context of the empire’s rapid integration into world capitalism. The district’s built environment changed radically, ...