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The empire in the city : Arab provincial capitals in the late Ottoman Empire / edited by Jens Hanssen, Thomas Philipp, Stefan Weber.

Contributor(s): Hanssen, Jens | Philipp, Thomas, 1941- | Weber, Stefan | Weber, Stefan (Director of the Museum of Islamic Art)Material type: TextTextSeries: Beiruter Texte und Studien ; Bd. 88.Publication details: Würzburg : Ergon in Kommission, 2002. Description: x, 375 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 24 cmISBN: 3935556896 (pbk.)Subject(s): Capitals (Cities) -- Arab countries -- Congresses | Islamic cities and towns -- Congresses | Cities and towns -- Arab countries -- Congresses | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings | HistoryLOC classification: HT147.5 | .E56 2002
Contents:
Rethinking Ottoman imperialism : modernity, violence and the cultural logic of Ottoman reform / Ussama Makdisi -- Practices of integration -- center-periphery relations in the Ottoman empire / Jens Hanssen -- Acre; the first instance of changing times / Thomas Philipp -- Foreign presence and perception of Ottoman rule in Beirut / Leila Fawaz -- Housing the foreign: a European's exotic home in late nineteenth-century Beirut / Ralph Bodenstein -- Ottoman provincial towns in the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Christoph K. Neumann -- Images of imagined worlds / Stefan Weber -- The Cairo cab drivers and the strike of 1907 / John Chalcraft -- Waqf only in name, not in essence / Astrid Meier -- Centralized authority and local decisional power / Randi Deguilhem -- Ottoman photography: recording and contributing to modernity / Wolf-Dieter Lemke -- Mersin: the formation of a Tanzimat city in southern Turkey / Filiz Yenisehirlioglu -- The central hall house; regional commonalities and local specificities / Anne Mollenhauer -- As-Sayyid Abū'l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī in Aleppo / Julia Gonnella -- Nineteenth-ccentury Baghdad through Ottoman eyes / Christoph Herzog -- Ordering urban space in Ottoman Yemen, 1872-1914 -- The Ottoman emprie and Yemeni politics in the Sancaq of Taʻizz, 1911-1918.
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Proceedings of a conference held April 1999, Beirut.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rethinking Ottoman imperialism : modernity, violence and the cultural logic of Ottoman reform / Ussama Makdisi -- Practices of integration -- center-periphery relations in the Ottoman empire / Jens Hanssen -- Acre; the first instance of changing times / Thomas Philipp -- Foreign presence and perception of Ottoman rule in Beirut / Leila Fawaz -- Housing the foreign: a European's exotic home in late nineteenth-century Beirut / Ralph Bodenstein -- Ottoman provincial towns in the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Christoph K. Neumann -- Images of imagined worlds / Stefan Weber -- The Cairo cab drivers and the strike of 1907 / John Chalcraft -- Waqf only in name, not in essence / Astrid Meier -- Centralized authority and local decisional power / Randi Deguilhem -- Ottoman photography: recording and contributing to modernity / Wolf-Dieter Lemke -- Mersin: the formation of a Tanzimat city in southern Turkey / Filiz Yenisehirlioglu -- The central hall house; regional commonalities and local specificities / Anne Mollenhauer -- As-Sayyid Abū'l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī in Aleppo / Julia Gonnella -- Nineteenth-ccentury Baghdad through Ottoman eyes / Christoph Herzog -- Ordering urban space in Ottoman Yemen, 1872-1914 -- The Ottoman emprie and Yemeni politics in the Sancaq of Taʻizz, 1911-1918.