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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: The Connected World of Empires
1. Trade and Port Cities in the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden Region in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
2. A Divided Sea: The Cairo Coffee Trade in the Red Sea Area during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
3. The Red Sea Ports During the Revolution in Transportation, 1800-1914
4. Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: The Indian Ocean, 1890s-1920s
5. Haifa at the Crossroads: An Outpost of the New World Order
6. Islamic Universalism and the Construction of Regional Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari's Book Revisited
7. Damascus and the Pilgrim Caravan
8. Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provences: Aleppo in Transition, 1880-1925
9. Representing Copts and Muhammadans: Empire, Nation and Community in Egypt and India, 1880-1914
10. Izmir 1922: A Port City Unravels
11. Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation: 1878-1914
12. The Tangled Ends of an Empire and Its Sultan
13. Racial Readings of Empire: Britain, France, and COlonial Modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia
14. Alexandria: A Mediterranean Cosmopolitan Center of Cultural Production
15. Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century
16. Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890-1920
17. Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim: Theory and History
Index

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