Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Würzburg : Ergon in Kommission, 2002.

Description:

x, 375 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Beiruter Texte und Studien, 0067-4931 ; Bd. 88

Notes:
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.

Summary:

"The Empire in the city deals with the many aspects of change of urban societies in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire during the period of reforms in the 19th and early 20th centuries. During this period of normative and centralizing state reforms and increasing international exchange, local and global dynamics led to profound social changes. This book therefore focuses on the converging trends of social and architectural interaction: Cities are heterogeneous structures of social organization. Thousands of men and women act daily in this complex system and leave their mark on the many layers the city's appearance. In this sense cities provide a rich source for studies on social transformation. The contributions deal with various aspects of provincial capitals and show how at different levels - society, architecture, urban structures, administration, institutions etc. - late Ottoman times were far from being a period of irreversible decline in Arab provincial capitals. They turn out to be times of vibrant intellectual activity, intense innovation and conscious city planning. Direct European influence played only a very limited part. Much of the impetus for change and transformation came from Istanbul or from the evolving local bourgeoisie. This book tries to bring back the role of local societies into the historiography of the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire."--Cover.

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ISBN:

3935556896 (pbk.)
9783935556897 (pbk.)

Subject:

Capitals (Cities) Arab countries Congresses.
Islamic cities and towns Congresses.
Cities and towns Arab countries Congresses.
Villes islamiques Congrès.
Villes États arabes Congrès.
15.75 history of Asia.
Capitals (Cities)
Cities and towns.
Islamic cities and towns.
Provinz
Stadt
Steden.
Capitals (Cities) Arab countries.
Cities and towns Arab countries.
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 Congresses.
Empire ottoman Histoire Congrès.
Arab countries.
Turkey.
Osmanisches Reich
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Beirut <1999>

Form/genre:

Kongress Beirut 1999.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Congresses (form)

Added entries:

Hanssen, Jens.
Philipp, Thomas, 1941-
Weber, Stefan (Director of the Museum of Islamic Art)
Weber, Stefan
Beiruter Texte und Studien ; Bd. 88.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240336
Call No.: BIB 170267
Status: Available