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Electric News in Colonial Algeria: Oxford Historical Monographs

Autor Arthur Asseraf
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 aug 2019
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 nineteenth and early twentieth 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. In a society split between its native majority and a substantial settler minority, distant wars led to riots. Circulation and polarisation were two sides of the same coin. Examining a range of sources in multiple languages across colonial society, Electric News in Colonial Algeria offers a new understanding of the spread of news. News was a whole ecosystem in which new technologies such as the printing press, telegraph, cinema, and radio interacted with older media like songs, rumours, letters, and manuscripts. The French government watched anxiously over these developments, monitoring Algerians' reactions to news through an extensive network of surveillance that often ended up spreading news rather than controlling its flow. By tracking what different people thought of as news, this history helps us reconsider the relationship between time, media, and historical change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198844044
ISBN-10: 0198844042
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 12 black and white figures/maps
Dimensiuni: 145 x 218 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Historical Monographs

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

This consistently engaging book represents a significant contribution to a rejuvenated social history of colonial Algeria as well as providing outstanding insight into the place of news and media in colonial society.
Overall, though, Asseraf's Electric News is an exciting and engaging study that analyzes print and other forms of communication during the colonial period. Asseraf complicates the exchanges between colonizers and the colonized and suggests how empire functioned at the ground level. It is a joyfully written book, abound with lush imagery and engaging stories, a serious academic study but without losing its human touch.
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.

Notă biografică

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.