TY - BOOK AU - Fuhrmann, Malte PY - 2020 DA - 2020// TI - Port cities of the eastern Mediterranean: urban culture in the late Ottoman Empire PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge KW - Port cities KW - Social life and customs KW - Turkey KW - Cosmopolitanism KW - History KW - Mediterranean Region KW - Port cities ; Turkey ; Social life and customs ; 19th century KW - Cosmopolitanism ; Turkey ; History ; 19th century KW - Port cities ; Mediterranean Region ; Social life and customs ; 19th century KW - Turkey ; Civilization ; Western influences ; 19th century KW - Turkey ; Social life and customs ; 19th century KW - Mediterranean Region ; Civilization ; 19th century KW - Mediterranean Region ; Social life and customs ; 19th century KW - Civilization KW - Western influences AB - Eastern Mediterranean port cities, such as Constantinople, Smyrna, and Salonica, have long been sites of fascination. Known for their vibrant and diverse populations, the dynamism of their economic and cultural exchanges, and their form of relatively peaceful co-existence in a turbulent age, many would label them as models of cosmopolitanism. In this study, Malte Fuhrmann examines changes in the histories of space, consumption, and identities in the nineteenth and early twentieth century while the Mediterranean became a zone of influence for European powers. Giving voice to the port cities' forgotten inhabitants, Fuhrmann explores how their urban populations adapted to European practices, how entertainment became a marker of a Europeanized way of life, and consuming beer celebrated innovation, cosmopolitanism and mixed gender sociability. At the same time, these adaptations to a European way of life were modified according to local needs, as was the case for the new quays, streets, and buildings. Revisiting leisure practises as well as the formation of class, gender, and national identities, Fuhrmann offers an alternative view on the relationship between the Islamic World and Europ SN - 9781108769716 UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769716 DO - 10.1017/9781108769716 LA - English N1 - Malte Fuhrmann, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient ID - 1739004612 ER -