The power of representation
Subtitle: publics, peasants, and Islam in Egypt
By: Michael Ezekiel Gasper.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804758888
Subjects: National characteristics, Egyptian.; Peasantry -- Egypt -- History.; Islamic modernism -- Egypt -- History.; Egypt -- Intellectual life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The formation and the emergence of the peasant question; title: People, peasants, and intellectuals; title: Five peasant characters in search of bourgeois identity or afandis in gallabiyas; title: Scientific agriculture : cultivators, agriculturalists or peasants?; title: The new peasant, colonial identity and the modern state.