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Damascus: Ottoman Modernity and Urban Transformation (1808-1918) (PROCEEDINGS OF THE DANISH INSTITUTE AT DAMASCUS)
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Review "Stefan Weber is to be complemented for producing such an outstanding and profoundly impressive work which sets a standard in the field. Damascus: Ottoman Modernity and Urban Transformation, 1808-1918 will be hard to supersede. The Danish Institute in Damascus is also to be commended for including this book in its proceedings." -- Abdul-Karim Rafeq William and Annie Bickers Professor of Arab Middle Eastern Studies,Emeritus, The College of William and Mary in Virginia (Book Reviews / Turkish Historical Review 4 (2013) 225240) "These are magnificent volumes, with the quality of scholarship and presentation that will last a century. ... There is so much in these volumes. They are sumptuously produced. Anyone resident in the city of Damascus will benefit from reading and re-reading the book." --Peter Clark, Asian Affairs-Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Vol. XLII Number II, July 2011 "This remarkable study opens new paths for comprehending the modern history of the Middle East. ... The material, data, and arguments in this book will interest social and political historians of the Middle East, plus comparative historians of cities, or art and of architecture, as well as a wider scholarly audience engaged with the concept of "entangled modernity." ...the pictures are gorgeous! These volumes will be equally at home in an academic office and on a living room coffee table." --James A. Reilly, Middle East Journal "Damascus makes a compelling and persuasive case for the use of architecture and urban design for the late 19th-century modernity. Using a wide range of sources--including city planning documents, archival documents, personal and archival photographs, and supplementary maps printed and folded into the back cover--the work represents the most comprehensive study of the city to date. An invaluable resource. Weber's Damascus will surely inspire scholars of urban and social history for decades to come." --Elyse Semerdjian, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45 (2013) "...this book is a magnificent monument to the built heritage of Damascus and the lives of countless Damascenes." --Benjamin Thomas White, Arab Studies Journal "Damascus makes a compelling and persuasive case for the use of architecture and urban design for the late 19th-century modernity. Using a wide range of sources--including city planning documents, archival documents, personal and archival photographs, and supplementary maps printed and folded into the back cover--the work represents the most comprehensive study of the city to date. An invaluable resource. Weber's Damascus will surely inspire scholars of urban and social history for decades to come." --Elyse Semerdjian, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45 (2013) Product Description Damascus, capital of the Ottoman province of Syria and one of the most important centres of the classical Muslim World, faced the same developments in the 19th century as other urban centres in the Mediterranean area and beyond. In the course of the industrial revolution in Europe and the radical expansion of a world-wide network of traffic and communication, new ideas, techniques, goods and architectural forms spread and challenged locally established patterns of urban and social organization. These challenges led to an increasing orientation of urban and social structures toward supra-regional models. Still, Damascus never became a "European city." Instead, houses, public buildings and bazaars were modernized in ways particular to Damascus. To understand the complexity of this process, this study examines society, architecture and urban planning including the documentation of over one thousand buildings of the endangered UNESCO World Heritage Site of Damascus. The history of these buildings and their transformation are discussed and many unpublished historical photographs provide an insight into lost urban textures and private worlds. The reader will be introduced into the rich leg
