Title Cairo : histories of a city / Nezar AlSayyad.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard Universitry Press, 2011.

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xix, 325 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index.
Contents	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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Subject	Architecture -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History.
	Architecture.
	Egypt -- Cairo.
	History.
	Architecture and society -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History.
	Architecture and society.
	City planning -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History.
	City planning.
	Cairo (Egypt) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Title	Histories of a city
Other Form:	Print version: AlSayyad, Nezar. Cairo. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard Universitry Press, 2011 9780674047860 (DLC) 2010041688 (OCoLC)667874305
ISBN	9780674060791 (electronic book)
	0674060792 (electronic book)
	9780674047860
	0674047869

Title Cairo : histories of a city / Nezar AlSayyad.

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