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  • 2 - A Historiography of Disentanglement

  • from Part I - Introduction
  • Malte Fuhrmann
  • Book:
    Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
    Published online:
    09 October 2020
    Print publication:
    29 October 2020, pp 10-18

  • 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.