Nurturing the Nation
Subtitle: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780520240230
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Social History; First World War, 1914-1918; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Globalization; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; History - General History; Middle East - Egypt; History: World; Egypt; History; History / General; Family; Middle East - General; Cross-cultural studies; Family policy
First sentence: In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the nascent Egyptian state's quest to modernize and strengthen its institutions and create new ones produced a kind of "travel literature" about the world outside Egypt's borders.