Electric News in Colonial Algeria - Arthur Asseraf - Oxford University Press
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• Analyses the circulation of news in Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• Presents a new understanding of how communication and information flows changed the dynamics of imperial rule
• Demonstrates the changes provided by new technologies such as the printing press, telegraph, cinema, and radio as they interacted with older media like songs, rumours, letters, and manuscripts
• Provides a new way of analysing modern global history by looking at Algeria’s connections to the wider world