MAHMOUD YAZBAK, Haifa in the Late Ottoman Period, 1864–1914: A Muslim Town in Transition, The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, vol. 16 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998). Pp. 276. $99.50 cloth.
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The study of the history of the modern Middle East has reached the state at which scholars now have access to first-rate monographs, such as this one, even about urban centers as modest as Haifa was during the period covered by this book. This is certainly good news, particularly because books such as this one, and May Seikaly's, which covers a subsequent period of Haifa's history, are comprehensive, well written, and thoroughly grounded in local primary sources. We should be grateful in particular to Brill's “Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage” series for publishing this and other monographs covering the local history of different parts of the Ottoman Empire.