| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 588 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford handbooks series |
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Oxford handbooks
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: New Directions in Egyptian History -- Part I. Medicine, Environment, and Disease -- 1. Medicine and Public Health in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Midwives and Childbirth during Colonial and Semi-Colonial Rule -- 3. Health and Nation: The Egyptian Medical Profession under British Rule -- 4. Colonizing and Decolonizing Egyptian Medicine -- 5. The Body of the Nile: Environmental Disease in the Long Twentieth Century -- Part II. Technology, Mobility, and Labor |
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6. Coalonizing Egypt: Carbonization in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 7. Of Machines and Men: Mechanization and Migrant Labor on the Suez Canal, 1859-64 -- 8. Rethinking the Greeks of Egypt: Individuals and Community -- 9. Gendering the History of the Labor Movement -- 10. Dams, Ditches, and Drains: Managing Egypt's Modern Hydroscape -- Part III. Law and Society -- 11. Hostages of Credit: The Imprisonment of Debtors in the Khedival Period -- 12. An Erased Experiment: Penal Legislation between 1823 and 1883 -- 13. Marriage and Family between the Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twenty-First Centuries |
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14. Refashioning the Shari'a Courts in the Semi-Colonial Period -- 15. From the Common Good to Public Interest -- Part IV. Textual, Performative, and Visual Culture -- 16. Egypt's State Periodical as a Tool of Governance, 1828-39 -- 17. Rethinking Literacy during the Nahda: The Many Lives of Texts -- 18. Photography, Selfhood, and Cultural Modernity -- 19. Taking Comedy Seriously: Theater in the 1920s -- 20. Hollywood on the Nile: Cinema and Revolution -- Part V. State, Politics, and Intellectuals -- 21. Encounters with Modernity: Egyptian Politics in the Nineteenth Century |
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22. Local Enlightenment in the Colonial Period: Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid in Perspective -- 23. State, Intellectuals, and the Past -- 24. The Army, State, and Society -- 25. Archives of Our Discontent: Nationalism and Historiography after 2011 -- Index |
| Summary |
"Until relatively recently, scholars of Egyptian history tended to understand the modern period to begin with the flow of European people and ideas to Egypt's northern shores sparked by Napoleon's invasion in 1798. From this perspective, modern Egyptian history was animated by the diverse and sometimes--contradictory ways in which Egyptians responded over time to colonial power and modern forms of knowledge. This handbook adds to a growing literature that complicates the facile colonizer-colonized and modern-tradition binaries undergirding this view. Rather than reactionary, modern Egyptian history is a continuous process of translation and adaptation, invention and reinvention. Contributors to the handbook address both long-persisting themes in the field, though in new ways, as well as new themes reshaping how we understand modern Egyptian history, and thus Middle Eastern and global history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Collection of essays by Khaled Fahmy and 24 others |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 19, 2024) |
| Subject |
Civilization
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African history.
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History.
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- History -- 1798- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041299
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Egypt -- Civilization -- 1798-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041269
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| Subject |
Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baron, Beth, editor
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Culang, Jeffrey, editor
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| LC no. |
2023033399 |
| ISBN |
9780190072766 |
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0190072768 |
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9780197675496 |
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0197675492 |
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9780190072759 |
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019007275X |
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