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- Title
The Exalted Column, the Hejaz Railway and imperial legitimation in late Ottoman Haifa.
- Authors
TALBOT, MICHAEL
- 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 'Ālī), 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 'Ālī 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.
- Subjects
HAIFA (Israel); MONUMENTS; HEJAZ Railway; HISTORY of railroads; OTTOMAN Empire; HISTORY of transportation; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Urban History, 2015, Vol 42, Issue 2, p246
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S096392681400056X