Zeynep Celik

Gebundenes Buch

Empire, Architecture, and the City

French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 188mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1221g
• ISBN-13: 9780295987798
• ISBN-10: 0295987790
• Artikelnr.: 23425572