Book contents
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- 1 The Enigma of Eastern Mediterranean Urban Culture
- 2 A Historiography of Disentanglement
- 3 Culture and the Global in Mediterranean History
- 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
2 - A Historiography of Disentanglement
The Long Legacy of the Nineteenth Century
from Part I - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2020
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- 1 The Enigma of Eastern Mediterranean Urban Culture
- 2 A Historiography of Disentanglement
- 3 Culture and the Global in Mediterranean History
- 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
This chapter traces the role of Eastern Mediterranean cities and urban society in historiography since the nineteenth century. As Max Weber considered their urban characteristics underdeveloped, many subsequent historians, including those critical of Westernization, concentrated on the state and agrarian society instead. The trend toward a focus on Ottoman urban history since the late 1990s has by contrast focused almost exclusively on microstudies. Therefore the field's overall rich findings have not managed to make an impact upon"big" history of the Middle East, the Ottomans, or nineteenth century in general.
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- Port Cities of the Eastern MediterraneanUrban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, pp. 10 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020