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Port-Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean 1800-1914 || Port-Cities in the Ottoman Empire: Some Theoretical and Historical Perspectives


Year: 2019
Language: english
Author: Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu • Eyüp Özveren Tülin Selvi Ünlü
Genre: Technical book
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Edition: 1st ed.
ISBN: 978-3-319-93662-8
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 264
Description: This book surveys the historical development, current problems and likely prospects for Eastern Mediterranean port cities, providing contributions from scholars from various disciplines, such as archaeologists, historians, economists, urban planners and architects. By studying the city of Mersin and the surrounding area, it offers insights into the changing nature of Eastern Mediterranean port cities.
The first part of the book discusses the approaches to the Mediterranean World, from the late prehistory to the present, and questions the implications of the values inherited from the past for a sustainable future. The second part then examines the social structure of Eastern Mediterranean port cities presenting an in-depth study of different ethnic groups and communities. In the third part the changing physical structure of these cities is elucidated from the perspectives of archaeology, architecture, and urban planning. The last part focuses on urban memory through a detailed study based on live recordings of original accounts by the local people.
The book benefits prospective researchers in the field of Mediterranean studies, archaeology, history, economic history, architecture and urban planning.

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu and Eyüp Özveren
2 The Mediterranean Idea: From the Roman Mare Nostrum
to the Book of the Sea by Naḥum Slouschz (1948) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Alisa Ginio
3 Mediterranean as a Supra-Regional Interaction Sphere During
Late Prehistory: An Overview on Problems and Prospects . . . . . . . 29
Mehmet Özdoğan
4 Settlements in the Hellenistic Period in Cilicia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Ümit Aydınoğlu
5 Anthroscapes: A Robust Basis for Mapping Land Quality
and Sustainable Land Use Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Selim Kapur, Erhan Akça, Claudio Zucca, Suha Berberoğlu
and Somayyeh Razzaghi Miavaghi
6 Visible/Invisible: Sanctity, History and Topography
in Tarsus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Oya Pancaroğlu
7 Maronites in Mersin Through Its Process of Becoming
an Important Port City (the Nineteenth and the Twentieth
Century) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Şerife Yorulmaz
8 The Greek-Orthodox Community of Mersin (Mid-Nineteenth
Century to 1921) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Evangelia Balta
9 Where Have All the Egyptian Fellahin Gone? Labor in Mersin
and Çukurova (Second Half of the Nineteenth Century) . . . . . . . . . 127
Ehud R. Toledano
10 Why Did the German Levantine Cotton Company Settle
in Cilicia? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
A. Halis Akder
11 The Port of Mersin from the Nineteenth Century
to the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Tülin Selvi Ünlü and Melike Kayam
12 Entrepreneurial Spirit and Modernization of a Port City:
The Case of Mersin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Burak Beyhan
13 Adana-Mersin Railway Station Buildings: A Cross-Section
of the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Mustafa Servet Akpolat
14 Changes to Urban Form in Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities:
Formation and Transformation of the Çamlıbel Neighborhood in
Mersin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Tolga Ünlü
15 The Denizens’ Turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Tülin Selvi Ünlü

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