CITIES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

In this ambitious inter-disciplinary study, the authors examine the relationships between the Eastern Mediterranean port cities and their hinterlands as well as inland and provincial cities from many different perspectives - political, economic, international and ecological - without prioritising either Ottoman Anatolia, or the Ottoman Balkans, or the Arab provinces in order to think of the Ea stern Mediterranean world as a coherent whole. Through its penetrating analysis of the various networks that connected the ports and towns of ...[Llegir més]