The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Baron, Beth; Culang, Jeffrey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Until relatively recently, scholars of Egyptian history understood the modern period to begin with the movement of European people and ideas to Egypt's northern shores precipitated by Napoleon's invasion in 1798. From this perspective, modern Egyptian history was defined by the diverse and sometimes contradictory ways in which Egyptians responded over time to colonial power and modern forms of knowledge. This handbook, featuring twenty-five originally commissioned essays by leading scholars in the field plus an introduction, adds to a growing literature that complicates the facile colonizer/ colonized and modern/tradition binaries undergirding this view. It shows modern Egyptian history to be a continuous process of translation and adaptation, invention and reinvention. The handbook is intended to map this dynamic and influential field, highlighting the most promising avenues of research and laying new ground upon which future generations of scholars may build. The contributors address both long-persisting themes, though in new ways, and new themes reshaping how we understand modern Egyptian history, and thus Middle Eastern and global history. These include culture, disease, environment, family, infrastructure, intellectuals, labor, law, literature, medicine, mobility, politics, the state, and technology. The historical questions explored in the handbook touch on many of today's most pressing global concerns and debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197675496
• Artikelnr.: 69796316

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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