Ottoman Izmir. The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port (1840-1880), written by Sibel Zandi-Sayek, 2012
In: Die Welt des IslamsIn her introduction to this beautifully illustrated book, Zandi-Sayek presents the context of her work: the population of Ottoman Izmir (Smyrna) grew massively during the years under study. The city’s urban fabric and form were also hugely transformed, with new neighbourhoods and infrastructures built. In the age of steam navigation, the harbour was modernized, and the city itself underwent profound changes. The balance between confessional communities was the object of renewed tensions and negotiations. New populations arrived, and new commercial networks developed.
Zandi-Sayek enounces the core idea of her research project as such: “I explore how people from a wide
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See also Elena Frangakis-Syrett, “The Making of an Ottoman Port: The Quay of Izmir in the 19th c.”, Journal of Tranport History 22, no. 1 (2001): 23-46. On Salonica, a city the development of which was quite comparable to that of Smyrna, see Dimitriadis Sotirios, “Transforming a Late Ottoman Port-city: Salonica (1876-1912)”, in Pascal Firges et. al. (eds.), Well-Connected Domains, Leiden: Brill, 2014, 207-21.
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Ottoman Izmir. The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port (1840-1880), written by Sibel Zandi-Sayek, 2012
In: Die Welt des IslamsIn her introduction to this beautifully illustrated book, Zandi-Sayek presents the context of her work: the population of Ottoman Izmir (Smyrna) grew massively during the years under study. The city’s urban fabric and form were also hugely transformed, with new neighbourhoods and infrastructures built. In the age of steam navigation, the harbour was modernized, and the city itself underwent profound changes. The balance between confessional communities was the object of renewed tensions and negotiations. New populations arrived, and new commercial networks developed.
Zandi-Sayek enounces the core idea of her research project as such: “I explore how people from a wide
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| Abstract Views | 276 | 40 | 2 |
| Full Text Views | 246 | 4 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 23 | 8 | 0 |