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The Egyptian peasant /

"Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. But the conservative and traditional world of unremitting labor that characterizes the lives of the Egyptian peasants, or fellaheen, also survives, and nowhere has it been better...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ayrout, Henry Habib
Otros Autores: Williams, John Alden
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, [2005]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Halftitle Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Foreward
  • Contents
  • List of Maps and Illustrations
  • Introduction by Morroe Berger
  • Author's Introduction: On Understanding the Fellah
  • 1. Changelessness
  • 2. Egypt, an Agricultural Country
  • 3. Landowners and Government
  • 4. The Fellah at Work
  • 5. The Physical Fellah
  • 6. The Village and the Peasant Group
  • 7. The Fellah's Home and Family
  • 8. Traditions of the Soil
  • 9. The Psychology of the Fellah
  • 10. The Distress of the Fellah
  • Epilogue: Progress
  • A Critical Bibliography
  • Glossary of Arabic Terms