Walls of Algiers : narratives of the city through text and image / edited by Zeynep Çelik, Julia Clancy-Smith, and Frances Terpak.
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TextPublication details: Los Angeles : Seattle : Getty Research Institute ; In association with University of Washington Press, c2009Description: ix, 283 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 26 cmISBN: 9780295988689 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0295988681 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Architecture and society -- Algeria -- Algiers -- Congresses | Algiers (Algeria) -- CongressesLOC classification: NA2543.S6W35 2009Online resources: Book review (H-Net) 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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