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Imagined empires: a history of revolt in Egypt

By Abul-Magd , Zeinab

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780520275522, 9780520275539, 9780520956537, 0520956532
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3181279 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white), maps (black and w
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Colonial influence;Elite (Social sciences);Elite (Resistance to--Egypt--History;Imperialism;ImperialResistance to;Government

Description

Through a microhistory of Qina, a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in this province over the last five hundred years. It explores modes of subaltern rebellion against these imagined empires that failed in achieving their professed goals and brought about environmental crises to Qina province. As the book deconstructs myths about early modern and modern empires, it shows how these global hegemons claimed to introduce forms of modernity to the colonized peoples of Qina, particularly through market-economy measures, but their modernity only dispossessed peasants, repressed laborers, and further subjugated women.

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