About the Author

Biray Kolluoglu is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bogazici University, Istanbul. She has published on late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Izmir. Her research interests include historical sociology, nationalism, sociology of space and memory. Meltem Toksoz is Assistant Professor of History at Bogazici University, Istanbul. She has published on the history of Ottoman Mersin, the port-city, and on the regional history of Cilicia. Her research interests include historiography, the social history of the commercial elites and the modernization of state and society in late Ottoman history.