The Long 1890s in Egypt Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance

by Booth, Marilyn; Anthony, Gorman

• ISBN13: 9780748670123
• ISBN10: 0748670122
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-08-31
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Marilyn Booth holds the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh. She has edited Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces (Duke UP, 2010), and a Journal of Women's History issue, Women's autobiography in the Middle East and South Asia (2013). She is Middle East/Europe editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.

Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at universities in Australia, Egypt and Britain. Among his research interests are modern Egyptian historiography and the resident foreign presence in modern Egypt.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction
Marilyn Booth and Anthony Gorman

Part I: Institutionalising Authority, Claiming Jurisdiction and Space

1. Documenting Death: Inquests, Governance and Belonging in Alexandria
Shane Minkin

2. The Scales of Public Utility: Agricultural Roads and State Space in the Era of the British Occupation
Aaron George Jakes

3. Training Teachers how to Teach: Transnational Exchange and the Introduction of Social-scientific Pedagogy in 1890s Egypt
Hilary Kalmbach

4. Legitimising Lay and State Authority: Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-century Egypt
Vivian Ibrahim

5. Criminal Statistics in the Long 1890s
Mario Ruiz

Part II: Challenging Authority in Contested Spaces

6. Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking Egyptian Sovereignty at the Western Periphery
Matthew H. Ellis

7. Regulating Sexuality: The Colonial-National Struggle over Prostitution after the British Invasion of Egypt
Hanan Hammad

8. Internationalist Thought, Local Practice: Life and Death in the Anarchist Movement in 1890s Egypt
Anthony Gorman

9. Cromer's assault on 'Internationalism': British Colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882-1907
Alexander Kazamias

Part 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

11. My Sister Esther: Reflections on Judaism, Ottomanism and Empire in the Works of Farah Antun
Orit Bashkin

12. Romances of History: Jirji Zaydan and the Rise of the Historical Novel
Paul Starkey

13. Before Qasim Amin: Writing Histories of Gender Politics in 1890s Egypt
Marilyn Booth

Index