Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire

ISBN-13: 9781108477376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 444 str.

Malte Fuhrmann

Opis

A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, re-examining European influence over the changing lives of their urban populations.

Recenzje

'… I would compare Fuhrmann's achievement to a challenging, but very successful balancing act. He uses textual sources of a dominantly anecdotal and often subjective nature, but with a rigor that wards off most of the dangers inherent to this kind of material. He navigates back and forth in a period of about a century with some liberty, but manages to maintain the required level of consistency while doing so. He focuses on a number of individual cases and moments in the life and culture of these port cities, yet he also manages to provide them with a theoretical and historiographical framework, which is extremely useful for the readers, especially if they are not familiar with this complex and multilayered context.' Edhem Eldem, H-Soz-Kult

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Constructing Europe: spatial relations of power in Eastern Mediterranean cities; 3. The city's new pleasures; 4. Identities on the Mediterranean shore: between experiment and restriction; 5. The end of the European dream; 6. Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean revisited.