Violence and the city in the modern Middle East / edited by Nelida Fuccaro.
Material type: TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780804797764 (e-book)Subject(s): Urban violence -- Middle East -- History | Political violence -- Middle East -- History | City and town life -- Middle East -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence and the city in the modern Middle East.DDC classification: 303.60956 LOC classification: HN656.Z9 | V589 2016Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Urban life and questions of violence / Nelida Fuccaro -- The semantics of violence and space / Rasmus Christian Elling -- Elite conflict and the urban environment : eighteenth-century Cairo / James E. Baldwin -- Urban space and prestige : when festivals turned violent in Jeddah, 1880s-1960s / Ulrike Freitag -- Citizenship rights and semantics of colonial power and resistance : Haifa, Jaffa, and Nablus, 1931-1933 / Lauren Banko -- Challenging the Ottoman pax urbana : intercommunal clashes in 1857 Tunis / Nora Lafi -- A tamed urban revolution : Saudi Arabia's oil conurbation and the 1967 riots / Claudia Ghrawi -- Making and unmaking spaces of security : Basra as battlefront, Basra insurgent, 1980-1991 / Dina Rizk Khoury -- A patriotic uprising : Baghdadi Jews and the Wathba / Orit Bashkin -- Dissecting moments of unrest : twentieth-century Kirkuk / Nelida Fuccaro -- War of clubs : struggle for space in Abadan and the 1946 oil strike / Rasmus Christian Elling -- Urban rupture : a fire, two hotels, and the transformation of Cairo / Yasser Elsheshtawy.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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