Title Port cities of the eastern Mediterranean : urban culture in the late Ottoman Empire / Malte Fuhrmann

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 477 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary "The book builds on discussions about nineteenth century port city society in late Ottoman urban and cultural history, but approaches them from a more European and Mediterranean perspective. Revisiting leisure practises, the formation of class, gender, and national identities, it also offers an alternative view on the relationship of the Islamic World to Europe. While the nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean became a zone of influence for the Great Powers, port city residents seized on what they perceived to be the European Dream, hoping to integrate into a wider world and revolutionize urban culture. They adapted European forms, but modified them according to local needs, as was the case for the new quays, streets, and buildings. Entertainment became a marker of a Europeanized way of life. The opera was a possibility for participating in a global civilizing mission. Consuming beer celebrated innovation, cosmopolitanism, and mixed gender sociability. Much like elsewhere in Europe, port city inhabitants were men and women "without qualities" when it came to identity: the possibilities to style the self overburdened many of them. Moreover, the respective nationalist discourses of the era sought to rein in free development. In the years prior to World War I, the pro-European mood was eclipsed by a more xenophobic atmosphere"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Port cities -- Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Port cities -- Mediterranean Region -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Cosmopolitanism -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century Civilization. Civilization -- Western influences. Cosmopolitanism. Manners and customs. SUBJECT Turkey -- Civilization -- Western influences -- 19th century Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Mediterranean Region -- Civilization -- 19th century Mediterranean Region -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Subject Mediterranean Region. Turkey. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2020012387 ISBN 9781108769716 1108769713 1108864406 9781108864404 9781108856072 1108856071

Other Titles Urban culture in the late Ottoman Empire

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