Mediterranean port cities: Cosmopolitanism reconsidered

Author: Driessen, Henk

Source: History and Anthropology, Volume 16, Number 1, March 2005 , pp. 129-141(13)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This article considers two intimately related claims about Mediterranean port cities. First, that their citizens felt more affinity with each other than they did with the inhabitants of non-port cities. And second that they were the scenes of liberal cosmopolitanism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It discusses the concept of “cosmopolitanism”, and briefly reviews the case of Izmir as an exemplar and compares it to the cities of Alexandria and Trieste. The article argues for a more careful and differential use of the notion of “cosmopolitanism”, and suggests questions for further anthropological and historical research.

Keywords: Port City; Mediterranean; Cosmopolitanism; Izmir; Research agenda

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/0275720042000316669

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