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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Getty Research Institute
Other Authors:	Çelik, Zeynep, Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann, Terpak, Frances, 1948-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles : Seattle : Getty Research Institute ; In association with University of Washington Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Architecture and society > Algeria > Algiers > Congresses. Algiers (Algeria) > Congresses.

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 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.