edited by Fawa, Leila Tarazi z and Bayly, C.A.

Modernity and culture: from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean / edited by Leila Tarazi Fawaz and C.A. Bayly with the collaboration of Robert Ilbert - New York: Columbia University Press, c2002. - xvi, 410 p.: ill., map; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Connected World of Empires / Trade and Port Cities in the Red Sea - Gulf of Aden Region in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century / A Divided Sea: The Cairo Coffee Trade in the Red Sea Area during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / The Red Sea Ports During the Revolution in Transportation, 1800-1914 / Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: The Indian Ocean, 1890s-1920s / Haifa at the Crossroads: An Outpost of the New World Order / Islamic Universalism and the Construction of Regional Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari's Book Revisited / Damascus and the Pilgrim Caravan / Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provinces: Aleppo in Transition, 1880-1925 / C. A. Bayly and Leila Fawaz -- Michel Tuchscherer -- Andre Raymond -- Colette Dubois -- Kenneth McPherson -- May Seikaly -- Hala Fattah -- Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- Peter Sluglett -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Representing Copts and Muhammadans: Empire, Nation, and Community in Egypt and India, 1880-1914 / Izmir 1922: A Port City Unravels / Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation, 1878-1914 / The Tangled Ends of an Empire and Its Sultan / Racial Readings of Empire: Britain, France, and Colonial Modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia / Alexandria: A Mediterranean Cosmopolitan Center of Cultural Production / Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890-1920 / Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim: Theory and History / C. A. Bayly -- Resat Kasaba -- Ayesha Jalal -- Engin Deniz Akarli -- Susan Bayly -- Robin Ostle -- Elisabeth Kendall -- Juan R. I. Cole -- Sugata Bose. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

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Cities and towns--History--Middle East
Cities and towns--History--Middle East
Cities and towns--History--India
Cities and towns--History--India
East and West.


Middle East--Civilization
Middle East--Civilization
India--Civilization

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