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
- 20 The Lack of an Anti-European Perspective
- 21 Economies of Violence and Challenges to the Thalassocentric Order
- 22 The Anti-Western Rebellion on the Eve of the Belle Époque
- 23 Deconstructing the European Female
- 24 The “Unraveling” of Port City Society
- Part VI Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index
24 - The “Unraveling” of Port City Society
from Part V - The End of the European Dream
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
- 20 The Lack of an Anti-European Perspective
- 21 Economies of Violence and Challenges to the Thalassocentric Order
- 22 The Anti-Western Rebellion on the Eve of the Belle Époque
- 23 Deconstructing the European Female
- 24 The “Unraveling” of Port City Society
- Part VI Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter narrates the downfall and eventual replacement of the nineteenth-century Eastern Mediterranean port city order. While the Italo-Turkish War foreshadowed the events to come, the following war years predominantly devasted the hinterland. Port city society found its penultimate blow in the Smyrna Catastrophe and the Holocaust in Salonica. In all port cities, however, the introduction of a nation-state order was initially declared but far from reality. Only decades of urban socioengineering and education of subsequent generations managed to install the change.
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- Port Cities of the Eastern MediterraneanUrban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, pp. 390 - 404Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020