Cairo (Record no. 242579)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 02135nam a2200385 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 720.962/16 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | AlSayyad, Nezar. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Cairo |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge, Mass. : |
| Name of publisher | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xix, 325 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Architecture |
| Topical Term | Architecture and society |
| Topical Term | City planning |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10498099 |
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