Title 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

Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 410 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Introduction: The connected world of empires / C.A. Bayly and Leila Fawaz -- Trade and port cities in the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden region in the sixteenth and seventeenth century / Michel Tuchscherer -- A divided sea: the Cairo coffee trade in the Red Sea area during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / André Raymond -- The Red Sea ports during the revolution in transportation, 1800-1914 / Colette Dubois -- Port cities as nodal points of change: the Indian Ocean, 1890s-1920s / Kenneth McPherson -- Haifa at the crossroads: an outpost of the new world order / May Seikaly -- Islamic universalism and the construction of regional identity in turn-of-the-century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari's book revisited / Hala Fattah -- Damascus and the pilgrim caravan / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- Aspects of economy and society in the Syrian provinces: Aleppo in transition, 1880-1925 / Peter Sluglett -- Representing Copts and Muhammadans: empire, nation, and community in Egypt and India, 1880-1914 / C.A. Bayly -- İzmir 1922: a port city unravels / Reşat Kasaba -- Negotiating colonial modernity and cultural difference: Indian Muslim conceptions of community and nation, 1878-1914 / Ayesha Jalal -- The tangled ends of an empire and its sultan / Engin Deniz Akarh -- Racial readings of empire: Britain, France, and colonial modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia / Susan Bayly -- Alexandria: a Mediterranean cosmopolitan center of cultural production / Robin Ostle -- Between politics and literature: journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the end of the nineteenth century / Elisabeth Kendall -- Printing and urban Islam in the Mediterranean world, 1890-1920 / Juan R.I. Cole -- Space and time on the Indian Ocean rim: theory and history / Sugata Bose Summary 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 th Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Cities and towns -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century Cities and towns -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century Cities and towns -- India -- History -- 19th century Cities and towns -- India -- History -- 20th century East and West. HISTORY -- General. HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. Cities and towns Civilization East and West SUBJECT Middle East -- Civilization -- 19th century Middle East -- Civilization -- 20th century India -- Civilization -- 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064875 Subject India Middle East Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Fawaz, Leila Tarazi, 1944- Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan) Ilbert, Robert ISBN 0231504772 9780231504775 0231114265 9780231114264 0231114273 9780231114271

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