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020 _z9780674047860 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z0674047869 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z9780674060791 (e-book)
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050 1 4 _aNA1583
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100 1 _aAlSayyad, Nezar.
245 1 0 _aCairo
_h[electronic resource] :
_bhistories of a city /
_cNezar AlSayyad.
246 3 0 _aHistories of a city
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_c2011.
300 _axix, 325 p. :
_bill. (chiefly col.), col. maps.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index.
505 0 _aPreamble : 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2011.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_zEgypt
_zCairo
_xHistory.
650 0 _aArchitecture and society
_zEgypt
_zCairo
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCity planning
_zEgypt
_zCairo
_xHistory.
651 0 _aCairo (Egypt)
_xBuildings, structures, etc.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10498099
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
999 _c242579
_d242579