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Author: Ziad Fahmy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0804772126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity.
Author: Ziad Fahmy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0804777748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertain—it created a nation. Songs, jokes, and satire, comedic sketches, plays, and poetry, all provided an opportunity for discussion and debate about national identity and an outlet for resistance to British and elite authority. This book examines how, from the 1870s until the eve of the 1919 revolution, popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity. Ordinary Egyptians shifts the typical focus of study away from the intellectual elite to understand the rapid politicization of the growing literate middle classes and brings the semi-literate and illiterate urban masses more fully into the historical narrative. It introduces the concept of "media-capitalism," which expands the analysis of nationalism beyond print alone to incorporate audiovisual and performance media. It was through these various media that a collective camaraderie crossing class lines was formed and, as this book uncovers, an Egyptian national identity emerged.
Author: Toby Wilkinson
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2007-11-17
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0500771634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK100 biographies reveal the true character and diversity of the ancient world's greatest civilization The biographies included here give voice not only to ancient Egypt's rulers but also to the people who built the great monuments, staffed government offices, farmed, served in the temples, and fought to defend the country's borders. Spanning thousands of years of ancient Egyptian history, the book offers a fresh perspective on an always fascinating civilization through the lives of: The god-kings, from great rulers like Khufu and Ramesses II to less famous monarchs such as Amenemhat I and Osorkon Egypt's queens: the powerful Tiye, the beautiful Nefertiti, Tutankhamun's tragic child-bride Ankhesenamun, and the infamous Cleopatra The officials who served the pharaoh: the architect Imhotep who designed the first pyramid, the court dwarf Perniankhu, and the royal sculptor Bak Ordinary women who are often overlooked in official accounts: Hemira, a humble priestess from a provincial Delta town, and Naunakht, whose will reveals the trials and tribulations of family life Commoners and foreigners such as the irascible farmer Hekanakht, the serial criminal Paneb, and Urhiya, the mercenary who rose to the rank of general in the Egyptian army. Profusely illustrated with works of art and scenes of daily life, Lives of the Ancient Egyptians offers remarkable insights into the history and culture of the Nile Valley and very personal glimpses of a vanished world.
Author: Adolf Erman
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nadine Moeller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1107079756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the latest archaeological evidence that makes a case for Egypt as an early urban society. It traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic Period up to the disintegration of the powerful Middle Kingdom state (ca. 3500-1650 BC).
Author: Louise Spilsbury
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-07-15
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1502648296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering one of the most famous and studied civilizations in history, this enthralling volume will make accessible to young readers the grim secrets of this former empire, including embalming the dead, ruthless pharaohs, and the building of the pyramids. Through illustrations, full-color photographs, and gruesome sidebars, students will discover a whole new exciting side to history.
Author: Ziad Fahmy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1503613046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies—from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers—fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets. The cacophony of everyday life grew louder, and the Egyptian press featured editorials calling for the regulation of not only mechanized and amplified sounds, but also the voices of street vendors, the music of wedding processions, and even the traditional funerary wails. Ziad Fahmy offers the first historical examination of the changing soundscapes of urban Egypt, highlighting the mundane sounds of street life, while "listening" to the voices of ordinary people as they struggle with state authorities for ownership of the streets. Interweaving infrastructural, cultural, and social history, Fahmy analyzes the sounds of modernity, using sounded sources as an analytical tool for examining the past. Street Sounds also reveals a political dimension of noise by demonstrating how the growing middle classes used sound to distinguish themselves from the Egyptian masses. This book contextualizes sound, layering historical analysis with a sensory dimension, bringing us closer to the Egyptian streets as lived and embodied by everyday people.
Author: Lynn Meskell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0691120587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndividual biographies, communities, and landscapes.
Author: Charlotte Booth
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-02-16
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1119998352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnravel the history behind of one of the most fascinating ancient civilisations with this engaging, entertaining and educational guide to the ancient Egyptians. With a complete rundown of ancient Egyptian history and culture alongside insights in to the everyday lives of the Egyptians, you’ll discover how they kept themselves entertained, the gory details of mummification, the amazing creation of the pyramids, the deciphering of hieroglyphs and much more.
Author: Evžen Strouhal
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780853239918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew studies of ancient Egypt cover so broad a scope as this exceptional insight into everyday life in ancient Egypt. The text is complemented by many illustrations of artefacts, works of art, and scenes of life in ancient Egypt as recorded in tomb reliefs and paintings on papyri. Werner Forman’s superb photographs were taken specially for this volume in Egypt and in the great public and private collections.
