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Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890--1920

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Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890--1920 - Fawaz, Leila (Editor), and Bayly, C a (Editor), and Ilbert, Robert
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Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century. Avoiding such dichotomies as East/West and modernity/tradition, this book provides a comparative analysis of contested versions of the concept of modernity, examining not only the "high" culture of scholars and the literati, but also popular music, the visual arts, and ...

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Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890--1920 2002, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231114271

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