Mediterranean port cities: Cosmopolitanism reconsidered

Mediterranean port cities: Cosmopolitanism reconsidered

Henk Driessen

2005

Journal Article

Henk Driessen

Journal Article

10.1080/0275720042000316669

0275-7206

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.

2014-03-22 15:28:12

2005

1

Taylor and Francis+NEJM

129-141

History and Anthropology

Mediterranean port cities

Mediterranean port cities: Cosmopolitanism reconsidered

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0275720042000316669

16

Snapshot