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

Marilyn Booth; Anthony Gorman

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2014

The Long 1890s in Egypt

Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance

Marilyn Booth and Anthony Gorman

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748670130

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Explores a vital and previously understudied moment in Egypt’s modern history

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-siècle 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-siècle, 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.

Key Features

A wide ranging and theoretically coherent study of a period that was crucial to the formation of modern Egypt
13 case studies challenge the prevailing view that the 1890s in Egypt was a time of withdrawal and quiescence
Engages with questions of political engagement, shifting gender roles, geographical ambiguities, the emergence of new media, community identity formation and changing artistic formations

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Tables and Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	v
The Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance Marilyn Booth and Anthony Gorman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Institutionalising Authority, Claiming Jurisdiction and Space
1 Documenting Death: Inquests, Governance and Belonging in 1890s Alexandria Shane Minkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2 The Scales of Public Utility: Agricultural Roads and State Space in the Era of the British Occupation Aaron George Jakes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
3 Training Teachers How to Teach: Transnational Exchange and the Introduction of Social-Scientific Pedagogy in 1890s Egypt Hilary Kalmbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
4 Legitimising Lay and State Authority: Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt Vivian Ibrahim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
5 Criminal Statistics in the Long 1890s Mario M. Ruiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
II Challenging Authority in Contested Spaces
6 Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking Egyptian Sovereignty at the Western Periphery Matthew H. Ellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
7 Regulating Sexuality: The Colonial–National Struggle over Prostitution after the British Invasion of Egypt Hanan Hammad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
8 Internationalist Thought, Local Practice: Life and Death in the Anarchist Movement in 1890s Egypt Anthony Gorman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
9 Cromer’s Assault on ‘Internationalism’: British Colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882–1907 Alexander Kazamias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
11 My Sister Esther: Reflections on Judaism, Ottomanism and Empire in the Works of Farah Antun Orit Bashkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
12 Romances of History: Jurji Zaydan and the Rise of the Historical Novel Paul Starkey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
13 Before Qasim Amin: Writing Women’s History in 1890s Egypt Marilyn Booth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	430

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 448
Keywords: Islamic Studies

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Published: July 28, 2014
ISBN: 9780748670130