Walls of Algiers narratives of the city through text and image

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TextPublication details: Los Angeles Getty Research Institute 2009Description: ix, 283 p. ill. (some col.), col. map 26 cmISBN:

9780295988689

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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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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library	General Books	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.

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