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On time : technology and temporality in modern Egypt /
In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2013.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness. These countertempos, predicated on uneasiness over ""dehumanizing"" European standards of eff. |
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| Description: | Revision of the author's thesis--New York University, 2009. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520956567 9780520956568 9781299713260 1299713262 0520276132 9780520276130 0520276140 9780520276147 |