The essays in this Oxford Handbook rethink the modern history of one of the most important and influential countries in the Middle East--Egypt. For a country and region so often understood in terms of religion and violence, this work explores environmental, medical, legal, cultural, and political histories. It gives readers an excellent view of the current debates in Egyptian history.
The essays in this Oxford Handbook rethink the modern history of one of the most important and influential countries in the Middle East--Egypt. For a country and region so often understood in terms of religion and violence, this work explores environmental, medical, legal, cultural, and political histories. It gives readers an excellent view of the current debates in Egyptian history.
Beth Baron is Distinguished Professor of History at the City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. As a historian of the Middle East, she focuses on gender, medicine, and modern Egypt. She served as editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies and as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. Her research has been funded by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Carnegie Corporation, Fulbright-Hays, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Jeffrey Culang is a historian of law, religion, and environmental politics in modern Egypt and the Middle East. He earned his PhD in history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He also served as Managing Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Independent of his work in history and Middle East studies, he is currently a senior editor at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University SIPA.
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* 1. Introduction Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang * MEDICINE ENVIRONMENT AND DISEASE * 2. Medicine and Public Health in the Nineteenth Century Khaled Fahmy * 3. Midwives and Childbirth during Colonial Rule Beth Baron * 4. The Re-Egyptianization of the Medical Profession 1919-1939 Liat Kozma * 5. Colonizing and Decolonizing Egyptian Medicine Soha Bayoumi * 6. The Body of the Nile: Environmental Disease in the Long Twentieth Century Jennifer Derr * TECHNOLOGY MOBILITY AND LABOR * 7. Coalonizing Egypt: Carbonization in the Long Nineteenth Century On Barak * 8. Of Machines and Men: Mechanization and Migrant Labor on the Suez Canal 1859-64 Lucia Carminati * 9. Rethinking the Greeks of Egypt: Individuals and Community Anthony Gorman * 10. Gendering the History of the Labor Movement Hanan Hammad * 11. Dams Ditches and Drains: Managing Egypt's Modern Hydroscape Nancy Reynolds * LAW AND SOCIETY * 12. Hostages of Credit: The Imprisonment of Debtors in the Khedival Period Omar Cheta * 13. Criminal Law in the Khedival Period Emad Hilal * 14. Marriage and Family between the Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twenty-First Centuries Ken Cuno * 15. Refashioning the Shari'a Courts in the Semi-Colonial Period Hanan Kholoussy * 16. From the Common Good to Public Interest Jeffrey Culang * TEXTUAL PERFORMATIVE AND VISUAL CULTURE * 17. Egypt's State Periodical as a Tool of Governance 1828-39 Kathryn Schwartz * 18. Rethinking Literacy during the Nahda: The Many Lives of Texts Hoda Yousef * 19. Photography Selfhood and Cultural Modernity Lucie Ryzova * 20. Taking Comedy Seriously: Theater in the 1920s Carmen Gitre * 21. Hollywood on the Nile: Cinema and Revolution Joel Gordon * STATE POLITICS AND INTELLECTUALS * 22. Encounters with Modernity: Egyptian Politics in the 19th Century Jamie Whidden * 23. Local Enlightenment in Colonial Egypt: Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid in Perspective Israel Gershoni * 24. State Intellectuals and the Past Yoav Di-Capua * 25. The Army State and Society Zeinab Abul Magd * 26. Archives of Our Discontent: Nationalism and Historiography after 2011 Pascale Ghazaleh
* 1. Introduction Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang * MEDICINE ENVIRONMENT AND DISEASE * 2. Medicine and Public Health in the Nineteenth Century Khaled Fahmy * 3. Midwives and Childbirth during Colonial Rule Beth Baron * 4. The Re-Egyptianization of the Medical Profession 1919-1939 Liat Kozma * 5. Colonizing and Decolonizing Egyptian Medicine Soha Bayoumi * 6. The Body of the Nile: Environmental Disease in the Long Twentieth Century Jennifer Derr * TECHNOLOGY MOBILITY AND LABOR * 7. Coalonizing Egypt: Carbonization in the Long Nineteenth Century On Barak * 8. Of Machines and Men: Mechanization and Migrant Labor on the Suez Canal 1859-64 Lucia Carminati * 9. Rethinking the Greeks of Egypt: Individuals and Community Anthony Gorman * 10. Gendering the History of the Labor Movement Hanan Hammad * 11. Dams Ditches and Drains: Managing Egypt's Modern Hydroscape Nancy Reynolds * LAW AND SOCIETY * 12. Hostages of Credit: The Imprisonment of Debtors in the Khedival Period Omar Cheta * 13. Criminal Law in the Khedival Period Emad Hilal * 14. Marriage and Family between the Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twenty-First Centuries Ken Cuno * 15. Refashioning the Shari'a Courts in the Semi-Colonial Period Hanan Kholoussy * 16. From the Common Good to Public Interest Jeffrey Culang * TEXTUAL PERFORMATIVE AND VISUAL CULTURE * 17. Egypt's State Periodical as a Tool of Governance 1828-39 Kathryn Schwartz * 18. Rethinking Literacy during the Nahda: The Many Lives of Texts Hoda Yousef * 19. Photography Selfhood and Cultural Modernity Lucie Ryzova * 20. Taking Comedy Seriously: Theater in the 1920s Carmen Gitre * 21. Hollywood on the Nile: Cinema and Revolution Joel Gordon * STATE POLITICS AND INTELLECTUALS * 22. Encounters with Modernity: Egyptian Politics in the 19th Century Jamie Whidden * 23. Local Enlightenment in Colonial Egypt: Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid in Perspective Israel Gershoni * 24. State Intellectuals and the Past Yoav Di-Capua * 25. The Army State and Society Zeinab Abul Magd * 26. Archives of Our Discontent: Nationalism and Historiography after 2011 Pascale Ghazaleh
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