The book delves into the planning history of Jakarta, revealing how urban development has evolved in Southeast Asia. Christopher Silver expertly outlines the transformation of Jakarta from a colonial capital with a mere 150,000 residents in 1900 to a bustling megacity of over 13 million by 2000. Through this exploration, the narrative highlights the significant impact of planning on the city's growth and the broader implications for urbanization in the region.
Focusing on Jakarta's water management, this book traces its evolution from the colonial period to the city's rise as a megacity. It provides a historical perspective that highlights the challenges and developments in urbanization and environmental planning. Researchers interested in Southeast Asian urban studies, sustainable development, and planning history will find it a valuable reference.
A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization.0If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these communities together: Arab music. For decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio, performed in concert, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences, stir national sentiments, and frustrate French colonial authorities. 0With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illuminating regional and transnational connections. In asking what North Africa once sounded like, Silver recovers a world of many voices?of pioneering impresarios, daring female stars, cantors turned composers, witnesses and survivors of war, and national and nationalist icons?whose music still resonates well into our present