MARC Record from University of Toronto

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245 04 $aThe walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history :$bthe living Medina in the Magrhib /$cedited by Susan Slyomovics.
260 $aLondon$aPortland, OR :$bFrank Cass,$c2001.
300 $a165 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
440 0 $aCass series--history and society in the Islamic world;$v3
500 $aThis group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on 'The walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history : the living Medina in the Maghrib' of The Journal of North African Studies (ISSN 1362-9387) 5/4 (Winter 2000).
500 $a"Essays in this collection were presented at the conference 'The Living Medina: The Walled Arab City in Architecture, Literature and History', hild 26 May-7June 1996. The conference, sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), was convened at the Tangier American Legation Museum (TALM)...." [p.1]
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOrientalism as irony in Gérard de Nerval's Voyage en Orient / James E. Housefield -- Watering the garden of Tangier : colonial contestations in a Moroccan city / Susan Gilson Miller -- The social context of working equines in the urban Middle East : the example of Fez Medina / Diana K. Davis and Denys Frappier -- The role of the Medinas in the reconstruction of Algerian culture and identity / Djilali Sari -- Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen / Susan Slyomovics -- Neighbourhood notes : texture and streetscape in the Médina of Tunis / Justin McGuinness -- Preservation and self-absorption : Italian colonisation and the walled city of Tripoli, Libya / Mia Fuller.
650 0 $aIslamic cities and towns$zAfrica, North$xHistory.
650 0 $aCities and towns$zAfrica, North$xHistory.
650 0 $aArchitecture and society$zAfrica, North$xHistory.
650 0 $aSociology, Urban.
651 0 $aTangier (Morocco)
651 0 $aTunis (Tunisia)
651 0 $aTlemcen (Algeria)
650 0 $aArchitecture, Islamic$zAfrica, North.
700 1 $aSlyomovics, Susan.
730 0 $aJournal of North African studies.$n5/4 (Winter 2000)
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