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Examines the impact of modernity on Greece and Turkey, and the influence of the West on these former states of the Ottoman Empire during the crucial hundred years between 1850 and 1950. This book explores the reactions and coping mechanisms displayed in both societies in reaction to Europe's all-pervasive influence.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction,Anna Frangoudaki and Caglar Keyder

II. Constructing the Modern State
Constitutionalism and the Ideological Conversion to National Unity under the Greek Constitution of 1864, Ioannis A. Tassopoulos
From Plurality to Unity: Codification and Jurisprudence in the Late Ottoman Empire, Zafer Toprak

III. Transforming Tradition
Metaphors of Change: ‘Tradition’ and the East/West Discourse in the Late Ottoman Empire, Haris Exertzoglou
Signatures of Greek Clients of the Imperial Ottoman Bank: A Clue to Cultural Choices and Behaviour?, Edhem Eldem
From West to East: The Translation Bridge. An Approach from a Western Perspective, Ioanna Petropoulou
Turkish Architecture between Ottomanismand Modernism 1873-1931, Sibel Bozdo¤an

IV. New Nations, New Women
Crossings and Homecomings: Mobility and the Politics of Culture in Greece during the First Half of the Twentieth Century, Ioanna Laliotou
A Gift from the New World: Greek Feminists between East and West (1880-1930), Angelika Psarra
Constituting the Modern Family as the Social in the Transition from Empire to Nation-State, Nükhet Sirman
“Cooking” the Nation: Women, Experiences of Modernity, and the Girls’ Institutes in Turkey, Zafer Yenal

V. Modern Spaces
Cityscapes and Modernity: Smyrna Morphinginto ‹zmir, Biray Kolluo¤luK›rl›
New Patterns of Urban Development in the Aegean Islands, 1850-1920s, Alexandra Yerolympos

About the Author

Anna Frangoudaki is Professor of the Sociology of Education at the University of Athens and Caglar Keyder is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York and at Bogazici University, Turkey.