Electric news in colonial Algeria / Arthur Asseraf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asseraf, Arthur, 1989- author.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford historical monographs

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Algeria--History--19th century.

Journalism.

Broadcast journalism--Algeria--History--20th century.

Broadcast journalism.

Algeria.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

New product edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? 'Electric News in Colonial Algeria' traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It tells a different history of globalization, one which puts the experience of everyday people at the centre. The years between 1881 and 1940 were those of maximum colonial power in North Africa; a period of intense technological revolution, global high imperialism, and the expansion of settler colonialism. Algerians became connected to international networks of news, and local people followed distant events with great interest. But once news reached Algeria, accounts of recent events often provoked conflict as they moved between different social groups.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2019).

This edition also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-258285-2

0-19-187999-1

0-19-258284-4