Talbot, Michael ORCID: 0000-0001-7198-1422 (2015) The Exalted Column, the Hejaz Railway and imperial legitimation in late Ottoman Haifa. Cambridge University Press, pp. 246-272. ISSN 0963-9268 (Print), 1469-8706 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S096392681400056X)

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Abstract

This article examines the political and social tensions of late Ottoman Haifa through the history of the Hejaz Railway and a particular monument, the ‘Exalted Column’ (Sütūn-u ʿĀlī), a monument erected in 1903 to commemorate the beginning of Ottoman construction on the Haifa railway branch. By first establishing the use of railways and railway architecture as a means of exerting state power in a comparative and local perspective, the railway structures in Haifa are analysed in the context of that city's other monumental buildings. This then leads to a discussion of the Sütūn-u ʿĀlī as a celebration of Ottoman authority and modernity, and of the developing Ottoman–German alliance. The symbolism of the column's iconography is shown to reflect a variety of problems that the Ottoman state faced in Haifa at the turn of the twentieth century.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ottoman Haifa; Hejaz Railway
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2021 23:01
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/15483

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