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Empire, Architecture, and the City
French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914
Langbeschreibung
Empire building and modernity dominate the history of the nineteenth century. Like their counterparts in Europe, the French and Ottoman empires employed urban infrastructure and city expansion to impose modernity and empire upon diverse social and political landscapes. elik examines Algeria and Tunisia under French colonial rule and the cities of the Ottoman Arab provinces of Syria, Beirut, Aleppo, Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Hijaz, Yemen, and Tripoli (Trablusgarb). Zeynep elik is professor of architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
AcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliterations and DatesIntroductionColor Plates1. Imperial Infrastructures2. Transforming Urban Fabrics3. New Public Spaces4. A New Monumentality and an Official Architecture5. Affirming Empire: Public CeremoniesEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
Zeynep Celik is distinguished professor of architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is the author of several books including The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, Displaying the Orient, and Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule.
ISBN-13:
9780295987798
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.11.2008
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Zeynep Celik
Gewicht:
1221 g
Format:
261x188x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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