Book contents
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Constructing Europe
- Part III The City’s New Pleasures
- 8 Visiting, Strolling, Masquerading, Dancing
- 9 Staging Europeanness
- 10 Theater, the Civilizing Mission, and Global Entertainment
- 11 The One World of Workers of the Dramatic Arts
- 12 Beer Consumption and Production on Mediterranean Shores
- 13 Beer, the Drink of a Changing World
- Part IV Identities on the Mediterranean Shore
- Part V The End of the European Dream
- Part VI Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - Beer, the Drink of a Changing World
from Part III - The City’s New Pleasures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2020
Book contents
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Constructing Europe
- Part III The City’s New Pleasures
- 8 Visiting, Strolling, Masquerading, Dancing
- 9 Staging Europeanness
- 10 Theater, the Civilizing Mission, and Global Entertainment
- 11 The One World of Workers of the Dramatic Arts
- 12 Beer Consumption and Production on Mediterranean Shores
- 13 Beer, the Drink of a Changing World
- Part IV Identities on the Mediterranean Shore
- Part V The End of the European Dream
- Part VI Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Beer in the late Ottoman Empire became a highly symbolic product used by contemporaries to either affirm or reject Europeanization. It was associated with individualism, a positive outlook onto the future, and mixed sex sociability. Its opponents rejected it as a product alien to local culture and social practices, and considered beer drinkers to be vainly glorifying European culture and displaying antisocial behavior. In Thessaloniki however, social inclusion or exclusion was negotiated along the possibility to enjoy and profit from beer.
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- Port Cities of the Eastern MediterraneanUrban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, pp. 194 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020