The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories
The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories

Author: John T. Chalcraft

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0791484815

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This book charts new directions in Egyptian social history, providing the first systematic account of adaptation and protest among crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a wealth of new sources, John T. Chalcraft challenges conventional notions of craft stagnation and decline by recovering the largely unknown histories of crafts workers' restructuring in the face of world economic integration, and their petitions, demonstrations, and strike-action at a time of state-building and colonial rule. Chalcraft demonstrates the economic importance of petty producers and service providers, and tells the story of widespread collective assertion couched in new discourses of citizenship and nationalism. He also gives a new interpretation of the end of the guilds in Egypt and addresses larger debates about unevenness under capitalism.

The Statesman's Year-Book
The Statesman's Year-Book

Author: M. Epstein

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-24

Total Pages: 1498

ISBN-13: 023027062X

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt

Author: Alan Mikhail

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0199315272

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Animals in rural Egypt became enmeshed in social relationships and made possible many tasks otherwise impossible. Rather than focus on what animals represented or symbolized, Mikhail discusses their social and economic functions, as Ottoman Egypt cannot be understood without acknowledging animals as central shapers of the early modern world.

Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt
Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt

Author: Anthony Gorman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1135145334

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This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the academic historian, the university system, the state and non-academic scholarship and the tension between them in contesting the modern history of Egypt. In a detailed discussion of the literature, the study analyzes the political nature of competing interpretations and uses the examples of Copts and resident foreigners to demonstrate the dissonant challenges to the national discourse that testify to its limitations, deficiencies and silences.

Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914
Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914

Author: Robert L. Tignor

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 140087632X

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In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since Egypt was occupied because of its strategic position along the route to India. British presence there, however, inevitably led to modernization during the 32 years of British rule. During the first period the British were preoccupied with the prospect of imminent withdrawal. The second period emphasized programs for such reforms as hydraulic and agricultural modernization, wider education, and urban development. The final period covered the emergence of Egyptian nationalism, whose goals proved incompatible with British rule of Egypt in spite of efforts to deal with nationalism by repression or conciliation. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.