Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Capitalizations
1: The Struggle for Self-Determination
2: A Nation of Provincials
3: Capitalist Urbanization and Subaltern Resistance
Part II: Mediations
4: War, Health, and the Making of Municipal Beirut
5: The Intermediary Bourgeoisie and Municipal Politics
6: Provincial Classroom: Intellectuals, Missionaries, and the State
Part III: Urban Words - Urban Worlds
7: Public Morality and Social Marginality
8: Urban Narratives of Modernity
9: Provincial Architecture and Imperial Commemoration
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jens Hanssen is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History at the University of Toronto. He has held junior research fellowships at the American University of Beirut and the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft in Beirut, and served on an advisory committee at the Lebanese Ministry of Culture and Higher Education in 1999 to host Beirut as the cultural capital of the Arab world.

Reviews

The general reader will be relieved to learn that Fin de Siecle Beirut is also quite readable. It echoes with Beirut voices - local, Ottoman and Western - and makes good use of rumour and anecdote to tell its story.