TY - CHAP
T1 - Infrastructure in the Making
T2 - The Ottoman Railway Company as Portrayed by the Smyrna Mail
AU - Cobb, Elvan
PY - 2022/12/29
Y1 - 2022/12/29
N2 - The Smyrna Mail, Izmir's weekly, English-language newspaper was published between 23 September 1862 and 21 May 1864. Despite its short run, the Smyrna Mail covered the frenzied years of railway construction in Izmir, a major modernisation endeavour that reshaped this important port city of the eastern Mediterranean. The Smyrna Mail provides an intimate, albeit biased and British-focused, look at the railway enterprise. Its articles often offer glimpses into the immediate effects of this massive infrastructural project on the ordinary lives of the people involved in its making, especially illuminating the social practices of the British who had moved their abodes to the Ottoman Empire due to their involvement in the railway. At the same time, the coverage of the Smyrna Mail reveals the crystallizing Ottoman agencies vis-à-vis the railway. These two parallel processes, as revealed through the pages of the Smyrna Mail, expand our knowledge of life that was transpiring around the building of the railway while exposing the dynamic power balances at play.
AB - The Smyrna Mail, Izmir's weekly, English-language newspaper was published between 23 September 1862 and 21 May 1864. Despite its short run, the Smyrna Mail covered the frenzied years of railway construction in Izmir, a major modernisation endeavour that reshaped this important port city of the eastern Mediterranean. The Smyrna Mail provides an intimate, albeit biased and British-focused, look at the railway enterprise. Its articles often offer glimpses into the immediate effects of this massive infrastructural project on the ordinary lives of the people involved in its making, especially illuminating the social practices of the British who had moved their abodes to the Ottoman Empire due to their involvement in the railway. At the same time, the coverage of the Smyrna Mail reveals the crystallizing Ottoman agencies vis-à-vis the railway. These two parallel processes, as revealed through the pages of the Smyrna Mail, expand our knowledge of life that was transpiring around the building of the railway while exposing the dynamic power balances at play.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Built-Environment-through-the-Prism-of-the-Colonial-Periodical-Press/Faria-Shelley-Lobo/p/book/9781032356709
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143458489&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003333180-4
DO - 10.4324/9781003333180-4
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781032356709
SN - 9781032366722
T3 - Routledge Studies in Cultural History
SP - 56
EP - 76
BT - The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press
A2 - Faria, Alice Santiago
A2 - Shelley, Anne
A2 - Lobo, Sandra Ataíde
PB - Routledge
CY - New York; Oxon
ER -