Ottoman Haifa : a history of four centuries under Turkish rule /

Ottoman Haifa : a history of four centuries under Turkish rule /

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Author / Creator:	Carmel, Alex.
Uniform title:	תולדות חיפה בימי התורכים. אנגלית
Imprint:	London ; New York : I. B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Description:	xi, 212 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Library of Middle East history ; v. 2 Library of Middle East history ; v. 2.
Subject:	Haifa (Israel) -- History. Israel -- Haifa. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8296029

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Other authors / contributors:	Friedman, Elias. Eisler, Jakob.
ISBN:	9781848855601 (hbk.) 1848855605 (hbk.)
Notes:	Formerly CIP. תרגום של: תולדות חיפה בימי התורכים. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Translated from the German.
Summary:	Under Ottoman rule, the city of Haifa, located at the southern point of the largest hay on the coast of Israel, was transformed from a scarcely-inhabited fortress town to a major modern city. Today the city is the third-largest in Israel and has over 250,000 inhabitants. This book details the history of Haifa under the Ottomans during the period 1516-1918. Alex Carmel uses a variety of original sources - including travel literature from the time - to uncover the realities of life in Haifa under Ottoman rule and paints a vivid picture of the development of the city in this era. He shows that it experienced its first significant boom as early as 1761 under Dahar al-Umar and that after the establishment of the Württemberg Templer Haifa Colony in 1868, the city began to flourish. The final chapter of the book shows how the city coped with the devastating effects of the Great War and the subsequent fall of the Ottoman Empire and establishment of the British Mandate. Carmers work has become the benchmark of the historiography of Israel's third largest city and remains to this day, the best-known and most highly-regarded survey of Haifa under Ottoman rule. This, the first English edition of Ottoman Haifa, will be essential reading for all historians of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. --Book Jacket.

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Call Number:	DS110.H28 C3713 2011
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