The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780748670123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 448 str.

Marilyn Booth;Anthony Gorman

Opis

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-siecle 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-siecle, 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.
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Spis treści

Introduction, Marilyn Booth and Anthony Gorman; Part I: Institutionalising authority, claiming jurisdiction and space; 1. Documenting death: Inquests, governance and belonging in Alexandria, Shane Minkin; 2. The scales of public utility: Agricultural roads and state space in the era of the British occupation, Aaron George Jakes; 3. Training teachers how to teach: Transnational exchange and the introduction of social-scientific pedagogy in 1890s Egypt, Hilary Kalmbach; 4. Legitimising Lay and State Authority: Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Vivian Ibrahim; 5. Criminal statistics in the long 1890s, Mario Ruiz; Part II: Challenging authority in contested spaces; 6. Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking Egyptian sovereignty at the western periphery, Matthew H. Ellis; 7. Regulating Sexuality: The Colonial-National Struggle over Prostitution after the British Invasion of Egypt, Hanan Hammad; 8. Internationalist thought, local practice: Life and Death in the Anarchist movement in 1890s Egypt, Anthony Gorman; 9. Cromer’s assault on ‘Internationalism’: British colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882-1907, Alexander Kazamias; Part III: Probing authority with the written word; 10. ‘And I saw no reason to chronicle my life’: Tensions of nationalist modernity in the memoirs of Fathallah Pasha Barakat, Hussein Omar; 11. My Sister Esther: Reflections on Judaism, Ottomanism and Empire in the Works of Farah Antun, Orit Bashkin; 12. Romances of History: Jirji Zaydan and the rise of the historical novel, Paul Starkey; 13. Before Qasim Amin: Writing histories of gender politics in 1890s Egypt, Marilyn Booth; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography.