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Port cities of the eastern Mediterranean : urban culture in the late Ottoman Empire / Malte Fuhrmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuhrmann, Malte, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Port cities--Turkey--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Port cities.
- Port cities--Mediterranean Region--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Cosmopolitanism--Turkey--History--19th century.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Manners and customs.
- Civilization.
- History.
- Turkey--Civilization--Western influences--19th century.
- Turkey.
- Turkey--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Mediterranean Region--Civilization--19th century.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Mediterranean Region--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 477 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Urban culture in the late Ottoman Empire
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures and Table
- Figures
- Table
- Acknowledgments
- Funding Acknowledgments
- Article Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- 1 The Enigma of Eastern Mediterranean Urban Culture
- 2 A Historiography of Disentanglement: The Long Legacy of the Nineteenth Century
- The Estranged Elder Sister of Port City Studies: The World System School
- Escape into the Microverse: Eastern Mediterranean Urban Studies
- 3 Culture and the Global in Mediterranean History
- Culture(s) in Contact, Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean
- What Makes the Urban Perspective Different
- Situating the Port City in the ''Age of Revivals''
- A Potpourri of Archived Voices
- Part II Constructing Europe: Spatial Relations of Power in Eastern Mediterranean Cities
- 4 The European Dream
- The European Promise: To Join a World on the Move
- 5 The Making of a European Spatial Discourse on the Levantine City
- Salonica and Smyrna: New Jerusalem by the Grace of the Sultan and the City without History
- 1850: The Return of the Panopticon
- The Steamship Revolution of Perception 1: Staring at the Land
- The Steamship Revolution of Perception 2: Staring at the Sea
- 6 Dreaming of a City in Stone
- A Dream of Symmetry
- 7 Reinventing the City from the Sea Inward
- Creating a New Urban Agenda: The Quays
- The New Waterfront Order and Ways of Working
- The New Waterfront Order and Ways of Moving
- The New Waterfront and Ways of Living
- Corso, Smyrneiko, and Nude Bathing: Lower-Class Appropriation of the Quays
- Bringing the State Back In
- The Making of a New Other: The Anti-Quays
- Conclusion
- Part III The City's New Pleasures
- 8 Visiting, Strolling, Masquerading, Dancing: The Consumers of Europeanism
- Not Modernized: The Classic House Visit
- Celebrating the City and the Countryside: The Corso and the Picnic
- The Greatest Party of the Century
- The Season and Its Festivities As Interethnic Site
- The Muslim Role in the Great Party
- From Kahvehane to Highlife
- 9 Staging Europeanness: The Rise of the Eastern Mediterranean Opera
- Smyrna and the Beginning of Opera and Modern Theater in the Levant
- The Age of the Café Chantant
- Pera and the Mid-century Splendor of the Naum Theater
- After Naum: More Coffeehouses and Theater in the Presence of the Dead
- Salonica's Late Blossom
- 10 Theater, the Civilizing Mission, and Global Entertainment
- A Source of Enlightenment or Harmless Pastime? Contemporary Attitudes toward Theater
- Opera and the Civilizing Mission?
- The Civilizing Mission toward the Audience
- Confessions of an Opera Addict
- The Elusive One World of Drama Writing
- Unilateral Dependency and Imperialist Competition in the Operatic Field
- Talking about a Revolution: 1908 on the International Stage
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fuhrmann, Malte. Port cities of the eastern Mediterranean
- ISBN:
- 9781108769716
- 1108769713
- 9781108864404
- 1108864406
- Publisher Number:
- 40030178823
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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