Malte Fuhrmann on cosmopolitan life in port cities of the late Ottoman era

What this episode covers

Malte Fuhrmann, research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, on “Port Cities of the East Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press). The book paints a panorama of cultural and social life in the richly diverse port cities of Salonica, Istanbul and Izmir in the late Ottoman era, when European cultural traits and economic development had a profound impact on the daily experiences of locals across boundaries. Support Turkey Book Talk by becoming a member. Members get a 30% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, English and Turkish transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the whole archive, and over 200 reviews covering Turkish and international fiction, history and politics. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854