TY - BOOK AU - Hanssen,Jens AU - Philipp,Thomas AU - Weber,Stefan AU - Weber,Stefan TI - The empire in the city: Arab provincial capitals in the late Ottoman Empire T2 - Beiruter Texte und Studien, SN - 3935556896 (pbk.) AV - HT147.5 .E56 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Würzburg PB - Ergon in Kommission KW - Capitals (Cities) KW - Arab countries KW - Congresses KW - Islamic cities and towns KW - Cities and towns KW - Turkey KW - History KW - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - fast N1 - 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 ER -