SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND MASS MOBILISATION

Παρουσίαση

"In the first decades of the twentieth century, the cities of the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean became, to an unprecedented degree, the scene of mass mobilisation, protest and conflict. Rooted in the ongoing social transformation and rapid urbanisation of the region, these phenomena of mass politics articulated the demands of emerging social subjects in the languages of nation and class, which were often peculiarly and inextricably intertwined. With the aim to transcend established constructions of historical space, the present volume brings together twenty-two scholars from several countries to explore a wide range of relevant cases throughout the region and in a variety of settings (the Ottoman imperial, nation-state and colonial) and inquire into the spatial, political and ideological dimensions of the transformation of early twentieth-century Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean societies. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Andreas Lyberatos
Introduction
I. THE URBAN PHENOMENON IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Alexandra Yerolympos
Domesticating Modernity through City Building: New Plans for the Balkan Cities, 1900-1922
Vassilis Colonas
Architectural Styles and National/Religious Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman Cities: The Case of the Campagnes District in Thessaloniki, 1885-1912
Dimitrios Charitatos
Transformations of Trivial Objects: Minor Quotidian Materiality during the First Third of the Twentieth Century in the Balkans
Dobrinka Parusheva
Making Do with what the System Provides: People, State and Housing in Bulgaria in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Aleksandar R. Miletic
Housing Disputes in East-Central and Southeast Europe, 1918 - 1928: Comparative Perspectives on Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland and Czechoslovakia
II. THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE, THE STATE AND THE PEOPLE
Christos Hadziiossif
The State as Insurer of Last Resort
Vangelis Kechriotis
Civilisation and Order: Middle-class Morality among the Greek-Orthodox in Smyrna/Izmir at the End of the Ottoman Empire
Nikos Potamianos
From the People to a Class: The Petite Bourgeoisie of Athens, 1901 - 1923
Bilge Seckin
Revolutionary Theatre and Mass Politics in the Ottoman Empire: Vatan Performances during the 1908 Revolution
III. MINORITIES AND THE STATE: FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE MEDITERRANEAN
Dimitris M. Kontogeorgis
Between Party Politics and Social Pressure: The Anti-Greek Movement in Romania, 1905 - 1906
Andreas Lyberatos
Confronting the Urban Crowd: Bulgarian Society and the 1906 Anti-Greek Movement
Roumen Avramov
Anchialo, 1906: The Political Economy of an Ethnic Clash
Y. Dogan Cetinkaya
On the Social Origins of Turkish Nationalism: The Anti-Greek Movement in the Ottoman Empire, 1910 - 1914
Stefanos Poulios
The Muslim Exodus from Crete: Property Destruction, Urbanisation and Counterviolence
Evrydiki Sifneos
Indifference and/or Egocentrism? The Greek Paroikia of Odessa in the Face of Twentieth-Century Social Turmoil
IV. NATIONALISM, CLASS AND RELIGION UNDER COLONIAL RULE
Alexander Kitroeff
Diaspora and Nationalism in the Eastern Mediterranean: Egypt's 1919 Revolution and the Foreign Communities
Mario M. Ruiz
Competing Pursuits, Collective Experiences: Egyptian Labour Mobilisation and the First World War
Anthony Gorman
Radical Internationalists on the Nile and across the Mediterranean
Angelas Dalachanis
Internationalism vs. Nationalism? The Suez Canal Company Strike of 1919 and the Formation of the International Workers' Union of the Isthmus of Suez
Sia Anagnostopoulou
The Mass Mobilisations in Cyprus within the British Colonial Framework, 1887 - 1889
Michalis N. Michael
'A Matter of Principle and Ideas': Mass Mobilisation in Cyprus during the First Decade of the Twentieth Century
Eyup Ozveren
Beirut as a Counterpoint to Fin de Siecle Eastern Mediterranean Trends: An Ottoman City by Design or by Default?
Notes on contributors