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Walls of Algiers narratives of the city through text and image

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles Getty Research Institute 2009Description: ix, 283 p. ill. (some col.), col. map 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780295988689
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.7609653 23 WA-
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 W35 2009
Contents:
Peoples. Exoticism, erasures, and absence: the peopling of Algiers, 1830-1900 / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Medina and modernity: the emergence of Muslim civil society in Algiers between the two World Wars / Omar Carlier -- Images. The promise and power of new technologies: nineteenth-century Algiers / Frances Terpak -- The houses of Algiers in French colonial discourse / Zeynep Çelik -- The invisible prison: representing Algiers on film / Eric Breitbart -- Places. Masking and unmasking the historic quarters of Algiers: the reassessment of an archive / Isabelle Grangaud -- Historic intersections: the center of Algiers / Zeynep Çelik -- Historiographies of Algiers: critical reflections / Patricia M.E. Lorcin.
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Print Print OPJGU Sonepat- Campus General Books Main Library 307.7609653 WA- (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 139941

Issued in connection with the workshop held May 2004, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and index.

Peoples. Exoticism, erasures, and absence: the peopling of Algiers, 1830-1900 / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Medina and modernity: the emergence of Muslim civil society in Algiers between the two World Wars / Omar Carlier -- Images. The promise and power of new technologies: nineteenth-century Algiers / Frances Terpak -- The houses of Algiers in French colonial discourse / Zeynep Çelik -- The invisible prison: representing Algiers on film / Eric Breitbart -- Places. Masking and unmasking the historic quarters of Algiers: the reassessment of an archive / Isabelle Grangaud -- Historic intersections: the center of Algiers / Zeynep Çelik -- Historiographies of Algiers: critical reflections / Patricia M.E. Lorcin.

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