BOOK REVIEWS

TURQUERIE AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION, 1728–1876, NEBAHAT AVCIOĞLU, (2011) Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 304 pp., 17 colour plates, 86 b/w illustrations, ISBN 9780754664222, $124.95 (cloth)

CITY AND SOUL IN DIVIDED SOCIETIES, SCOTT A. BOLLENS, (2012) London and New York: Routledge, 278 pp., 54 b/w illus., ISBN 9780415779234, $53.95 (paperback)

HAREM HISTORIES: ENVISIONING PLACES AND LIVING SPACES, MARILYN BOOTH (ED.), (2011) Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 416 pp., 39 illus., 3 figures, ISBN 9780822348696, $55 (paperback), ISBN 9780822348580, $89.95 (cloth)

DUBAI: THE CITY AS CORPORATION, AHMED KANNA, (2011) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 288 pp., 17 b/w illus., ISBN 9780816656301, $75 (cloth), ISBN 9780816656318, $25 (paper)

MAMLUK HISTORY THROUGH ARCHITECTURE: MONUMENTS, CULTURE AND POLITICS IN MEDIEVAL EGYPT AND SYRIA,NASSER RABBAT (2010) London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 288 pp., 72 b/w illus., ISBN 978845119645, $80 (cloth)

OTTOMAN IZMIR: THE RISE OF A COSMOPOLITAN PORT, 1840–1880, SIBEL ZANDI-SAYEK, (2012) Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, x + 273 pp., 55 b/w illus., 19 b/w maps, ISBN 9780816666010, $82.50 (cloth), ISBN 9780816666027, $27.50 (paperback)