Langbeschreibung
Presents a multifaceted look at the social use of urban space in a North African city
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AcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction / Zeynep Celik, Julia Clancy-Smith, and Frances TerpakPart One | Peoples1. Eroticism, Erasures, and Absence: The Peopling of Algiers, 1830-1900 / Julia Clancy-Smith2. Medina and Modernity: The Emergence of Muslim Civil Society in Algiers between the Two World Wars / Omar CarlierPart Two | Images3. The Promise and Power of New Technologies: Nineteenth-Century Algiers / Frances Terpak4. A Lingering Obsession: The Houses of Algiers in French Colonial Discourse / Zeynep Celik5. The Invisible Prison: Representing Algiers on Film / Eric BreitbartPart Three | Places6. Masking and Unmasking the Historic Quarters of Algiers: The Reassessment of an Archive / Isabelle Grangaud7. Historic Intersections: The Center of Algiers / Zeynep CelikHistoriographies of Algiers: Critical Reflections / Patricia M. E. LorcinSelected BibliographyIndexContributors