Title: Cairo.
Authors: Aldridge, James.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Year: 1969
Subjects: Cairo (Egypt); Cairo (Egypt) History.; Cairo (Egypt) Description and travel.
Abstract: The political, social, economic, and cultural expression of consciousness during Cairo's existence is thoroughly examined in this popular account as are the dominant personalities, past and present, from the Pharoahs to Napoleon to Nasser.
Contents: Foundations -- Dynastic Cairo -- Heliopolis -- Babylon -- Fustat -- Fustat-Askar-Katai -- Fustat-Misr -- Al Kahira -- Saladin's Cairo -- Ottoman Cairo -- Napoleon's Cairo -- Mohammed Ali's Cairo -- Europeanized Cairo -- Cromer's Cairo -- Revolutionary Cairo -- The end of occupation -- Egyptian Cairo: Survival, 1952-1956 -- National consciousness, 1956-1962 -- The European memory -- The medieval city now -- The new city -- The morals and the manners -- The intellectual city -- The destiny of necessity.