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Contents Tables vii Preface ix Contributors xiii 1. Introduction peter sluglett with edmund burke iii 1 2. Interdependent Spaces Relations Between the City and the Countryside in the Nineteenth Century sarah d. shields 43 3. Political Relations Between City and State in the Middle East, 1700–1850 dina rizk khoury 67 4. The Economic Organization of Cities in Ottoman Syria abdul-karim rafeq 104 5. Political Relations Between City and State in the Colonial Period leila fawaz and robert ilbert 141 6. The Demography of Cities and the Expansion of Urban Space bernard hourcade 154 vi | C O N T E N T S C O N T E N T S 7. Moving Out of Place Minorities in Middle Eastern Urban Societies, 1800–1914 gudrun krämer 182 8. Urban Social Movements, 1750–1950 sami zubaida 224 Glossary 257 Bibliography 261 Index 315 ...

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