Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean

Table of contents

• Modernity and Culture *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contributors xiii
• Modernity and Culture *
• Introduction - The Connected World of Empires 1
• Notes *
• 1 - Trade and Port Cities in the Red Seagulf of Aden Region in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century 28
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• 2 - A Divided Sea: the Cairo Coffee Trade in the Red Sea Area during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 46
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• 3 - The Red Sea Ports during the Revolution in Transportation, 1800–1914 58
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• 4 - Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: the Indian Ocean, 1890s1920s 75
• Notes *
• 5 - Haifa at the Crossroads: an Outpost of the New World Order 96
• Notes *
• 6 - Islamic Universalism and the Construction of Regional Identity in Turn-Of-The-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Haidari's Book Revisited 112
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• 7 - Damascus and the Pilgrim Caravan 130
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• 8 - Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provinces: Aleppo in Transition,1880–1925 144
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• 9 - Representing Copts and Muhammadans: Empire, Nation, and Community in Egypt and India, 1880–1914 158
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• 10 - İZmir 1922: a Port City Unravels 204
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• 11 - Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation,1878–1914 230
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• 12 - The Tangled Ends of an Empire and Its Sultan 261
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• 13 - Racial Readings of Empire: Britain, France, and Colonial Modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia 285
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• 14 - Alexandria: a Mediterranean Cosmopolitan Center of Cultural Production 314
• Notes 329
• 15 - Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century 330
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• 16 - Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890–1920 344
• Notes 362
• 17 - Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim: Theory and History 365
• Notes *
• Index 389

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