The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire.(Book Review)

The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire edited by the agency of Jens Hanssen, Thomas Philipp and Stefan Weber. Beirut: Orient Institut der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, 2002 Pp.xi+375, index, 73 illustrations. ISBN 3-935556-89-6

This turn is the record of an international talk held in Beirut in April 1999 Many of the papers attempt a reconstruction of aspects of urban life in the late Ottoman Empire, focusing mainly upon Acre, Beirut, Cairo, Mersin, Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, al-Salt, and Taizz. Although the papers differ in methodology