Electric News in Colonial Algeria

As Algeria became connected to international news networks during French colonial rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study examines how news spread through communities and across social divides, how new media changed the communication landscape, and how surveillance by the French government played a role.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Magical Printing


• 2: Arab Telephone


• 3: War-Time


• 4: Old Waves


• 5: Palestine the Martyr


• Epilogue


• Bibliography

About the author

Arthur Asseraf is a historian of North Africa, France, and the Mediterranean. Born and raised in Paris, he was Examination Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, before joining the History Faculty at Cambridge. His research focuses on global histories of colonialism, race, and information.

Summary

As Algeria became connected to international news networks during French colonial rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study examines how news spread through communities and across social divides, how new media changed the communication landscape, and how surveillance by the French government played a role.

Additional text

Asseraf provides a wealth of new perspectives on information, engagement and resistance in colonial Algeria, and opens new lines of enquiry for scholars of news and media in North Africa and elsewhere.

Product details

• Authors: ^BArthur^R ^BAsseraf^R, Arthur Asseraf, Arthur (Lecturer in the History of France Asseraf, Arthur (Lecturer in the history of France and the Francophone World Asseraf
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780198844044
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884404-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, HISTORY / Civilization, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Algeria, African History, History and Archaeology