Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century. As the age of pre-colonial empires gave way to colonial and national states, there was a sense that a particular liberalism of culture and economy had been irretrievably lost to a more intolerant age.
Avoiding such dichotomies as East/West and modernity/tradition, this book provides a comparative analysis of contested versions of the concept of modernity. The book examines not only the "high" culture of scholars and the literati, but also popular music, the visual arts, and journalism. The contributors incorporate discussion of the way in which the business in both commodities and ideas was conducted in the increasingly cosmopolitan cities of the time.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Connected World of Empires
- 1. Trade and Port Cities in the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden Region in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
- 2. A Divided Sea: The Cairo Coffee Trade in the Red Sea Area during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 3. The Red Sea Ports During the Revolution in Transportation, 1800-1914
- 4. Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: The Indian Ocean, 1890s-1920s
- 5. Haifa at the Crossroads: An Outpost of the New World Order
- 6. Islamic Universalism and the Construction of Regional Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari's Book Revisited
- 7. Damascus and the Pilgrim Caravan
- 8. Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provences: Aleppo in Transition, 1880-1925
- 9. Representing Copts and Muhammadans: Empire, Nation and Community in Egypt and India, 1880-1914
- 10. Izmir 1922: A Port City Unravels
- 11. Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation: 1878-1914
- 12. The Tangled Ends of an Empire and Its Sultan
- 13. Racial Readings of Empire: Britain, France, and COlonial Modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia
- 14. Alexandria: A Mediterranean Cosmopolitan Center of Cultural Production
- 15. Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century
- 16. Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890-1920
- 17. Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim: Theory and History
- Index
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