Research Catalog

Title

Vintage Alexandria : photographs of the city, 1860-1960 / Michael Haag.

Author

Haag, Michael, 1943-

Publication

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

ix, 139 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"Using vintage photographs from the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth, many of them from private family albums, this book brings to life the world of that vanished Alexandria, a vibrant, stylish, and cosmopolitan city, the largest port in the Mediterranean, that was the prosperous gateway between Egypt and the world. Seen here in the setting of their homes and gardens, and on the city's streets and beaches, the faces of those forgotten Alexandrians come to life: the Greeks, Italians, Jews, and all those others from around the Mediterranean whose energy and expertise helped modernize and develop Egypt, and who planted their family roots in the city. This was the luxuriant and evocative city celebrated by Constantine Cavafy, E.M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell, and they too are included in these pages along with photographs of scenes and people that were familiar to them. Vintage Alexandria traces the development and growth of the city, follows its story through the dramatic events of two world wars, and above all provides a background to the city's place in twentieth-century cultural history, through the eyes of Alexandria's cosmopolitan citizens themselves."--Jacket.

Subjects

• 1800-1999
• Pictorial works
• History
• Alexandria (Egypt) > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Alexandria (Egypt) > History > 19th century > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• History
• Pictorial works

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9789774161926
• 9774161920

OCLC

• 223849477
• SCSB-10446309

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library