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"Details the shifts in Cairo's built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies"--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: AlSayyad, Nezar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
al- Markaz al-ʻArabī li-d-Dirāsāt > Kairo
Architecture > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Architecture and society > Egypt > Cairo > History.
City planning > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Architecture > Égypte > Le Caire > Histoire.
Architecture et société > Égypte > Le Caire > Histoire.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Regional.
HISTORY > Middle East > Egypt.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
Buildings.
City planning.
Geschichte
Arquitectura > Egipte > Caire > Història.
Urbanisme > Egipte > Caire > Història.
Cairo (Egypt) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Egypt > Cairo.
Kairo
Kairo.
Electronic book.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preamble : reading and writing Cairo
  • Memphis : the first Cairo
  • From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave
  • Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam
  • Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town
  • Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree
  • The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans
  • Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks
  • A provincial capital under Ottoman rule
  • A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali
  • Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old : the city of the Khedive
  • The Arab republic and the city of Nasser
  • Escaping the present, consuming the past.

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