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
- 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
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
- 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 section investigates how "Europeanization" impacted upon leisure practices in Ottoman port cities. While conserving some old practices, such as the home visit, and developing others, such as the evening stroll, other customs new to most nineteenth-century Eastern Mediterranean residents, especially theater and opera as well as beer drinking, offered novel pastimes. Especially the latter served as forms of cultural capital and possible entry tickets to a wider European or global community of sentiment.
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- Port Cities of the Eastern MediterraneanUrban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, pp. 93 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020