Modernity and Culture
From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean
Published on 15. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-231-11427-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
The guiding vision behind this collection is profound, and the overall quality of the articles is excellent. American Historical Review The volume is a major contribution to the growing field of comparative history...Modernity and Culture, although focused on the Middle East and South Asia, will be of broad interest to students and teachers of world history for its explicit content and the stimulation it provides toward fresh conceptions and presentations of two major world regions in a global context. -- Frank F. Conlon History: Reviews of New Books This book can be regarded as a landmark achievement in expanding the scope of historical studies... It will provide a most valuable starting point for a new type of comparative studies. -- Ulrike Freitag School of Oriental and African Studies The contributors to Modernity and Culture capture many of the important trends that shaped the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- Jennifer Derr Arab Studies Journal The totality of the essays in Modernity & Culture validate the need for cross-regional analysis. MESA Bulletin With its complex approach to the problems under study and its innovative interpretations, this collection represents an important stimulus. -- Svetla Ianeva Mediterranean Historical ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 halftones
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-11427-1 (9780231114271)
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Leila Tarazi Fawaz is a professor of history in the School of Arts and Sciences and a professor of diplomacy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, both at Tufts University. C. A. Bayly is professor of history at Cambridge University and fellow of St. Catharine's College.
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Connected World of Empires, by C. A. Bayly and Leila Fawaz Section 1. Trade Routes and Patterns of Exchange from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries Trade and Port Cities in the Red Sea - Gulf of Aden Region in the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Michel Tuchscherer A Divided Sea: The Cairo Coffee Trade in the Red Sea Area during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, by Andre Raymond The Red Sea Ports during the Revolution in Transportation, by Colette Dubois Section II. Cities as Centers of Exchange Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: The Indian Ocean, 1890s - 1920s, by Kenneth McPherson Haifa at the Crossroads: An Outpost of the New World Order, by May Seikaly Islamic Universalism and Regional Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari's Book Revisited, by Hala Fattah Section III. Survival of the Inland Cities Damascus and the Pilgrim Caravan, by Abdul-Karim Rafeq Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provinces: Aleppo in Transition, 1880-1925, by Peter Sluglett Section IV. Cultural Production and Diffusion Representing Copts and Muhammadans: Empire, Nation, and Community in Egypt and India, 1880-1914, by C. A. Bayly Izmir 1922: A Port City Unravels, by Resat Kasaba Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation, c. 1878-1914, by Ayesha Jalal Section V. Politics Race and Community The Tangled End of Istanbul's Imperial Supremacy, by Engin Deniz Akarli Racial Readings of Empire: Britain, France, and Colonial Modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia, by Susan Bayly Section VI. Representing the Modern Alexandria: A Mediterranean Cosmopolitan Center of Cultural Production, by Robin Ostle Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century, by Elisabeth Kendall Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890-1920, by Juan Cole Section VII. Comparisons and Connections Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim: Theory and History, by Sugata Bose