Malte Fuhrmann, research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, on “Port Cities of the East Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press).
The book paints a panorama of cultural and social life in the richly diverse port cities of Salonica, Istanbul and Izmir in the late Ottoman era, when European cultural traits and economic development had a profound impact on the daily experiences of locals across boundaries.
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