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.

• I. Introduction,Anna Frangoudaki and Caglar KeyderII. Constructing the Modern StateConstitutionalism and the Ideological Conversion to National Unity under the Greek Constitution of 1864, Ioannis A. TassopoulosFrom Plurality to Unity: Codification and Jurisprudence in the Late Ottoman Empire, Zafer ToprakIII. Transforming TraditionMetaphors of Change: ‘Tradition’ and the East/West Discourse in the Late Ottoman Empire, Haris ExertzoglouSignatures 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 PetropoulouTurkish Architecture between Ottomanismand Modernism 1873-1931, Sibel Bozdo¤anIV. New Nations, New WomenCrossings and Homecomings: Mobility and the Politics of Culture in Greece during the First Half of the Twentieth Century, Ioanna LaliotouA Gift from the New World: Greek Feminists between East and West (1880-1930), Angelika PsarraConstituting 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 YenalV. Modern SpacesCityscapes and Modernity: Smyrna Morphinginto ‹zmir, Biray Kolluo¤luK›rl›New Patterns of Urban Development in the Aegean Islands, 1850-1920s, Alexandra Yerolympos