The long 1890s in Egypt : colonial quiescence, subterranean resistance /

Explores a vital and previously understudied moment in Egypt's modern history Egypt just before political eruption! Turns of the century in Africa's northeastern corner have been critical moments, ushering in overt popular activism in the hope of radical political redirection - as this vol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Booth, Marilyn (Editor ), Gorman, Anthony, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Temas:
1882-1936
African history.
HISTORY > Middle East > Egypt.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Egypt > History > British occupation, 1882-1936.
Égypte > Histoire > 1882-1936 (Occupation britannique)
Egypt
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page;
  • Copyright;
  • Contents;
  • Tables and Figures;
  • The Contributors;
  • Introduction: The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance;
  • Part I INSTITUTIONALISING AUTHORITY, CLAIMING JURISDICTION AND SPACE;
  • 1 Documenting Death: Inquests, Governance and Belonging in 1890s Alexandria;
  • 2 The Scales of Public Utility: Agricultural Roads and State Space in the Era of the British Occupation;
  • 3 Training Teachers How to Teach: Transnational Exchange and the Introduction of Social-Scientific Pedagogy in 1890s Egypt.
  • 4 Legitimising Lay and State Authority: Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt
  • 5 Criminal Statistics in the Long 1890s;
  • Part II CHALLENGING AUTHORITY IN CONTESTED SPACES;
  • 6 Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking Egyptian Sovereignty at the Western Periphery;
  • 7 Regulating Sexuality: The Colonial-National Struggle over Prostitution after the British Invasion of Egypt;-- 8 Internationalist Thought, Local Practice: Life and Death in the Anarchist Movement in 1890s Egypt;
  • 9 Cromer's Assault on 'Internationalism': British Colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882-1907.
  • Part III PROBING AUTHORITY WITH THE WRITTEN WORD
  • 10 'And I Saw No Reason to Chronicle My Life': Tensions of Nationalist Modernity in the Memoirs of Fathallah Pasha Barakat;
  • 11 My Sister Esther: Reflections on Judaism, Ottomanism and Empire in the Works of Farah Antun;
  • 12 Romances of History: Jurji Zaydan and the Rise of the Historical Novel;
  • 13 Before Qasim Amin: Writing Women's History in 1890s Egypt; Bibliography; Index.

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