Pivot cities in the rise and fall of civilizations. (2021)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Pivot cities in the rise and fall of civilizations. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Pivot cities in the rise and fall of civilizations
- Uniform Title:
- Medeniyetler ve șehirler.
- Further Information:
- Note: Ahmet Davutoğlu ; translated from the Turkish by Andrew Boord.
- Authors:
- Davutoğlu, Ahmet, 1959-
- Other Names:
- Boord, Andrew translator.
- Contents:
- Preface Part I. Intellectual Experiences and Methodological Framework 1. Introduction: Intellectual Background I. My First Encounters with Cities: Traces of Place II. From Empirical Consciousness to Theory: Civilizational Self-Perception and Cities 2. Critical Analysis of City Historiography: A Methodological Framework I. Methodological Criticism II. An Exemplary Analysis of Methodological Dilemma: Ottoman Cities in City Historiography III. The City as the Subject of the History of Civilizations: Classification of Pivot Cities Part II. The Role of Pivot Cities in the History of Civilizations 3. Civilization-Founding Pivot Cities: Pioneering Cities I. Pataliputra: A Model of Spatial and Social Order II. Athens: Cultural Center of Civilizational Continuity III. From Rome to Pax Romana : From a City to an Imperial Political Order IV. Medina: A Prototype for Cities of Islamic Civilization 4. Pivot Cities Founded by a Civilization: The Rise of Cities as Political Centers after the Formation of a Civilizational Paradigm I. The Islamic City: The Building of "New Medinas" in Different Cultural Basins II. The Power Centers of Western Civilization: Modernity and Ascendant Cities 5. Pivot Cities Transplanted During the Formation of Civilizations: Alexandrian, Ottoman and Modern Networks of Cities I. The Alexandrian Cities and Civilizational Interaction II. The Ottoman-Seljuk City Tradition on the Khorasan-Anatolia-Rumelia Line III. Modern Economo-Politics Transfer Cities 6. "GhostPreface Part I. Intellectual Experiences and Methodological Framework 1. Introduction: Intellectual Background I. My First Encounters with Cities: Traces of Place II. From Empirical Consciousness to Theory: Civilizational Self-Perception and Cities 2. Critical Analysis of City Historiography: A Methodological Framework I. Methodological Criticism II. An Exemplary Analysis of Methodological Dilemma: Ottoman Cities in City Historiography III. The City as the Subject of the History of Civilizations: Classification of Pivot Cities Part II. The Role of Pivot Cities in the History of Civilizations 3. Civilization-Founding Pivot Cities: Pioneering Cities I. Pataliputra: A Model of Spatial and Social Order II. Athens: Cultural Center of Civilizational Continuity III. From Rome to Pax Romana : From a City to an Imperial Political Order IV. Medina: A Prototype for Cities of Islamic Civilization 4. Pivot Cities Founded by a Civilization: The Rise of Cities as Political Centers after the Formation of a Civilizational Paradigm I. The Islamic City: The Building of "New Medinas" in Different Cultural Basins II. The Power Centers of Western Civilization: Modernity and Ascendant Cities 5. Pivot Cities Transplanted During the Formation of Civilizations: Alexandrian, Ottoman and Modern Networks of Cities I. The Alexandrian Cities and Civilizational Interaction II. The Ottoman-Seljuk City Tradition on the Khorasan-Anatolia-Rumelia Line III. Modern Economo-Politics Transfer Cities 6. "Ghost Cities": The Decline of Pivot Cities Through Power Shifts and Civilizational Transformation I. The Era of Ascendancy: Binding Different Cultural Geographies II. The Era of Decline: End of the Multicultural Social Environment III. Ultimate Destiny: From Pivotal Role to a "Ghost City" 7. "Lost Cities": Pivot Cities Liquidated with a Civilization I. Invasion II. End of Political Dominance III. Historical Non-existence 8. Pivot Cities on Lines of Geoeconomic/Geocultural Interaction: Centers of Civilizational Encounters I. The Mesopotamia-Anatolia-Levant Line II. The Central Asia-Iran-India Line III. The Central Asia-Steppes Line IV. The Andalusia-North Africa-Sahara Line Part III. Transforming/Transformed Pivot Cities Where Civilizations Meet 9. Jerusalem: The Soul of Civilizations’ History and Spiritual Transformation I. Formation and Legacy of Jerusalem: Inter-civilizational Background II. Efforts to Destroy Jerusalem and the Defiant City Spirit: Babylonians and Romans III. The Recovery of City Spirit and Continuity: Omar, the Ayyubids and the Ottomans IV. Attempts to Establish a One-Dimensional City: Crusaders and Israel 10. Cairo and Civilizational Interaction: The Transformative Power of Place I. Civilizational Interaction of Internal and External Elements II. Civilizational Encounters of Intellectual/Spiritual Legacy of Humankind III. Civilizational Pluralism: Cultural Fabric and Architectural Heritage 11. Istanbul: A Civilization-Blending Subject City I. Istanbul as an Ancient Synthesis Between Two Diverse Constituent/Pioneer City Prototypes: Rome and Medina II. Conquest and Reconquista : The Two Faces of Military Expansion in Europe III. Istanbul as the Pivot City of Civilizational Transformation IV. City Culture and Architectural Change … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
- Subjects:
- 307.7601
Cities and towns -- Philosophy
Civilization -- Philosophy - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000458787
9781000458527
9781003166733 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367763862
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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