Fin de Si?cle Beirut
The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 July 2005
- ISBN 9780199281633
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 597 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous maps and halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 graph, 3 tables 0
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Short description:
Fin de Si?cle Beirut is a landmark contribution to the growing literature on Ottoman studies, Arab cultural history, and Mediterranean cities. Combining urban theory with postcolonial methodology, Jens Hanssen argues that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. Drawing on published and unpublished Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, Hanssen traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire.
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Postwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable openness and inconceivable violence, of great antiquity and a bright future. The Lebanese capital stands for Arab cosmopolitanism and cultural effervescence but also for its tragedies of destruction. This book examines the historical formation of Beirut as a multiply contested Mediterranean city.
Fin de Si?cle Beirut is a landmark contribution to the growing literature in Ottoman studies, in Arab cultural history and on Mediterranean cities. Combining urban theory, particularly Henri Lefebvre's work on cities and capitalism, with postcolonial methodology, the central thesis of this book is that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. The city of Beirut was at once the product, the object, and the project of imperial and urban politics of difference: overlapping European, Ottoman, and municipal civilising missions competed in the political fields of administration, infrastructure, urban planning, public health, education, public morality, journalism, and architecture.
Jens Hanssen offers a comprehensive, original account of the emergence of modern Beirut out of an economic shift away from Acre in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. He argues that the Ottoman government's decision to heed calls for the creation of a new province around Beirut and grant it provincial capital status in 1888 paved the way for fundamental urban and regional reconfigurations long before colonial policies during the French Mandate period. This new Ottoman province came to constitute the territorial embodiment of regional self-determination for Arab nationalists in Beirut until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I.
Drawing on published and unpublished Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, Hanssen's book traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire. The transformation of everyday life in late nineteenth-century Beirut and the concomitant policies of urban management is vividly set against the devastating civil war in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860.
This is a fundamental work, based on research in Archives in Istanbul, Paris and Kew as well as extensive readings of newspapers, books and unpublished theses.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Capitalizations
The Struggle for Self-Determination
A Nation of Provincials
Capitalist Urbanization and Subaltern Resistance
Part II: Mediations
War, Health, and the Making of Municipal Beirut
The Intermediary Bourgeoisie and Municipal Politics
Provincial Classroom: Intellectuals, Missionaries, and the State
Part III: Urban Words - Urban Worlds
Public Morality and Social Marginality
Urban Narratives of Modernity
Provincial Architecture and Imperial Commemoration
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
