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Mahmud Sami al-Barudi : Reconfiguring Society and the Self /
To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets-the perils and promises-of change in the rapidly modernizing Egypt of the nineteenth century. Al-Barudi, sole scion of a Turko-Circassian elite family that clung precariously to a legacy of position and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2015
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : why al-Barudi?
- Beginnings and frames
- Return to Cairo
- Crete
- Domestic, social, and literary horizons
- Echoes of war, portents of invasion
- Ashes, ashes, we all fall down
- Exile, loss, and the recovery of self
- No place like home.