Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. The logic behind this latter view has now been largely lost. Offering a revised history, Nancy Reynolds looks to the decades leading up to the fire to show that the lines between foreign and native in city space and commercial merchandise were never so starkly drawn. Consumer goods occupied an uneasy place on anti-colonial agendas for...

This revised volume I is a compilation of information on Adventists establishing the church in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, gleaned from secular and church sources of this time period. It weaves a story of how tuberculosis, railroads, and land grants impacted early members and workers who brought the Texico Conference into existence, and provided the foundation for where it is today. Despite losses and hardships, they pressed on to spread the gospel of Jesus. This book is a tribute to them.