Cities of the Mediterranean : from the Ottomans to the present day / edited by Biray Kolluoğlu and Meltem Toksöz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mapping out the Eastern Mediterranean : toward a cartography of cities of commerce / Biray Kolluoğlu and Meltem Toksöz -- Port-cities in the Belle Epoque / Çağlar Keyder -- Economic and ecological change in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1550-1850 / Faruk Tabak -- Maps and wars : charting the Mediterranean in the sixteenth century / Carla Keyvanian -- Geographic theatres, port landscapes and architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean : Salonica, Alexandria, İzmir / Christina Pallini -- The cartography of harbor construction in Eastern Mediterranean cities : technical and urban modernization in the late nineteenth century / Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis -- Mental maps : the Mediterranean worlds of two Palestinian newspapers in the late Ottoman period / Johann Büssow -- Adding new scales of history to the Eastern Mediterranean : illicit trade and the Albanian / Isa Blumi -- Educating the nation : migration and acculturation on the two shores of the Aegean at the turn of the twentieth century / Vangelis Kechriotis -- Global networks, regional hegemony, and seaport modernization on the lower Danube / Constantin Iordachi -- Competition as rivalry : İzmir during the Great Depression / Eyüp Özveren and Erkan Gürpınar -- The deep structures of Mediterranean modernity / Edmund Burke III.

"Explores diverse topics weaving together history, sociology, geography, cartography, politics and economics"--Jacket.