{"product_id":"cities-of-the-mediterranean-from-the-ottomans-to-the-present-day-9781780767697","title":"Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Eastern Mediterranean is one of the world's most vibrant and vital commercial centres and for centuries the region's cities and ports have been at the heart of East-West trade. Taking a full and comprehensive look at the region as a whole rather than isolating individual cities or distinct cultures, Cities of the Mediterranean offers a fresh and original portrait of the entire region, from the 16th century to the present. In this ambitious inter-disciplinary study, the authors examine the relationships between the Eastern Mediterranean port cities and their hinterlands as well as inland and provincial cities from many different perspectives - political, economic, international and ecological - without prioritising either Ottoman Anatolia, or the Ottoman Balkans, or the Arab provinces  in order to think of the Eastern Mediterranean world as a coherent whole.  Wide-ranging in scope, Cities of the Mediterranean explores diverse topics, weaving together history, sociology, geography, cartography, politics and economics. Early chapters examine the impact of the 'Little Ice Age'; the global economy's shift from the Mediterranean to Antwerp and Amsterdam; early European perceptions of the Eastern Mediterranean; 19th-century harbour building practices and their impact on the cities; and the connections between Alexandria, Izmir and Thessalonica and their vast and diverse hinterlands.  The book also explores political radicalism in Turkey and elsewhere as well as the illegal trade networks that linked the Balkans and Adriatic with the Mediterranean and the introduction of new technologies that led to the faster transport of people, goods and information. Through its penetrating analysis of the various networks that connected the ports and towns of the Mediterranean and their inhabitants throughout the Ottoman period, Cities of the Mediterranean presents the region as a unified and dynamic community and paves the way for a new understanding of the subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'the complexities of modernity and modernization in the Mediterranean emerge clearly in this exciting collection.'  Journal of European Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS Mapping Out the Eastern Mediterranean: Toward a Cartography of Cities of Commerce, Biray Kolluoglu Kirli and Meltem Toksöz   Port-cities in the Belle Epoque, Çaglar Keyder   Economic and Ecological Change in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1550-1850, Faruk Tabak   Maps and Wars: Charting the Mediterranean in the Sixteenth Century, Carla Keyvanian   Geographic Theatres, Port Landscapes and Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean: Thessaloniki, Alexandria, Izmir, Cristina Pallini   The Cartography of Harbor Construction in Eastern Mediterranean Cities: Technical and Urban Modernization in the Late Nineteenth Century, Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis   Mental Maps: The Mediterranean Worlds of Two Palestinian Newspapers in the Late Ottoman Period, Johann Büssow   Adding New Scales of History to the Eastern Mediterranean: Illicit Trade and the Albanian, Isa Blumi   Educating the Nation: Migration and Acculturation on the two Shores of the Aegean at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Vangelis Kechriotis   Global Networks, Regional Hegemony, and Seaport Modernization on the Lower Danube, Constantin Iordachi   Competition as Rivalry: Izmir during the Great Depression, Eyüp Özveren and Erkan Gürpinar   The Deep Structures of Mediterranean Modernity, Edmund Burke III   Notes  List of Contributors  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771447705943,"sku":"9781780767697","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781780767697.jpg?v=1758727903","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cities-of-the-mediterranean-from-the-ottomans-to-the-present-day-9781780767697","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}