Walls of Algiers: narratives of the city through text and image/

Corporate Author: Getty Research Institute
Other Authors: Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles: Seattle: Getty Research Institute University of Washington Press, [c2009]
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Table of 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 Celik
  • 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 Celik
  • Historiographies of Algiers: critical reflections / Patricia M.E. Lorcin.