SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND MASS MOBILISATION IN THE BALKAN AND EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CITIES, 1900–1923

In English. Soft cover, 24 cm, 214 pp. In the first decades of the 20th 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.

CONTENTS:

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 Seçkin, 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 Çetinkaya, 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

Angelos 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

Eyüp Özveren, Beirut as a Counterpoint to Fin de Siècle Eastern Mediterranean Trends: An Ottoman City by Design or by Default?

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