Cairo [[electronic resource] ] : histories of a city / / Nezar AlSayyad |
Autore | AlSayyad Nezar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | xix, 325 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps |
Disciplina | 720.962/16 |
Soggetto topico |
Architecture - Egypt - Cairo - History
Arquitectura - Egipte - Caire - Història Architecture and society - Egypt - Cairo - History City planning - Egypt - Cairo - History Urbanisme - Egipte - Caire - Història |
ISBN | 0-674-06079-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781639703321 |
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Cairo : histories of a city / / Nezar AlSayyad |
Autore | AlSayyad Nezar |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | xix, 325 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps |
Disciplina | 720.962/16 |
Soggetto topico |
Architecture - Egypt - Cairo - History
Arquitectura - Egipte - Caire - Història Architecture and society - Egypt - Cairo - History City planning - Egypt - Cairo - History Urbanisme - Egipte - Caire - Història |
ISBN | 0-674-06079-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811021303321 |
AlSayyad Nezar
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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