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
- 4 The European Dream
- 5 The Making of a European Spatial Discourse on the Levantine City
- 6 Dreaming of a City in Stone
- 7 Reinventing the City from the Sea Inward
- Part III The City’s New Pleasures
- 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
5 - The Making of a European Spatial Discourse on the Levantine City
from Part II - Constructing Europe
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
- 4 The European Dream
- 5 The Making of a European Spatial Discourse on the Levantine City
- 6 Dreaming of a City in Stone
- 7 Reinventing the City from the Sea Inward
- Part III The City’s New Pleasures
- 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
The chapter traces the transformation of Western travel narratives reporting about journeys to Eastern Mediterranean port cities from the beginning to the middle of the nineteenth century. It claims that the transformation from romantic immersing in the foreign landscape to supremacism was influenced by the technological and sensory revolution of the steamship.
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- Port Cities of the Eastern MediterraneanUrban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, pp. 49 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020