The long 1890s in Egypt : colonial quiescence, subterranean resistance
4 Legitimising Lay and State Authority: Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt5 Criminal Statistics in the Long 1890s; II CHALLENGING AUTHORITY IN CONTESTED SPACES; 6 Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking Egyptian Sovereignty at the Western Periphery; 7 Regulating Sexuality: The Coloni...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,
2014
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| Schlagworte: | Egypt Egypte HISTORY RELIGION |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (438 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 4 Legitimising Lay and State Authority: Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt5 Criminal Statistics in the Long 1890s; 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 III PROBING AUTHORITY WITH THE WRITTEN WORD10 '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 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 volume's focus on Egypt's 19th-century fin-de-siecle demonstrates. The end of the 19th century in Egypt witnessed crisscrossing and conflicting political currents as well as fluctuating economic, geopolitical, social conditions, demographic conditions and cultural processes. Like Egypt's 20th-century fin-de-siecle, much of this ferment was a prelude to the more visible and politically erup |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 20, 2015) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (438 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9780748670130 0748670130 9781322987200 1322987203 9780748670123 0748670122 |