The long 1890s in Egypt : colonial quiescence, subterranean resistance / [electronic resource]
Booth, Marilyn, author.
Booth, Marilyn,editor.
Gorman, Anthony,editor.
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-siécle 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-siécle, much of this ferment was a prelude to the more visible and politically eruptive events of the next decades, when Egypt's popular resistance burst onto the international scene. But its subterranean cast was no less dynamic for that.   Key Features:   A wide ranging and theoretically coherent study of a period that was crucial to the formation of modern Egypt   *13 case studies challenge the prevailing view that the 1890s in Egypt was a time of withdrawal and quiescence   *Engages with questions of political engagement, shifting gender roles, geographical ambiguities, the emergence of new media, community identity formation and changing artistic formations
Title page; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; The Contributors; Introduction The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance; I INSTITUTIONALISING AUTHORITY, CLAIMING JURISDICTION AND SPACE; 1 Documenting Death: Inquests, Governance and Belonging in 1890s Alexandria; 2 The Scales of Public Utility: Agricultural Roads and State Space in the Era of the British Occupation; 3 Training Teachers How to Teach: Transnational Exchange and the Introduction of Social-Scientific Pedagogy in 1890s Egypt
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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-siécle 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-siécle, much of this ferment was a prelude to the more visible and politically eruptive events of the next decades, when Egypt's popular resistance burst onto the international scene. But its subterranean cast was no less dynamic for that.   Key Features:   A wide ranging and theoretically coherent study of a period that was crucial to the formation of modern Egypt   *13 case studies challenge the prevailing view that the 1890s in Egypt was a time of withdrawal and quiescence   *Engages with questions of political engagement, shifting gender roles, geographical ambiguities, the emergence of new media, community identity formation and changing artistic formations
British Occupation of Egypt (1882-1936)
HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt).