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Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923
Lisa Pollard
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Description for Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923
Paperback. A revisionist history of the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919, focusing on gender and the family. Num Pages: 302 pages, 10 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
Focusing on gender and the family, this erudite and innovative history reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class and household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule. Lisa Pollard deftly argues that the Egyptian state's modernizing projects in the nineteenth century reinforced ideals of monogamy and bourgeois domesticity among Egypt's elite classes and connected those ideals with political and economic success. At the same time, the British used domestic and personal practices such as polygamy, the harem, and the veiling of women to claim that the ruling ... Read more
Focusing on gender and the family, this erudite and innovative history reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class and household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule. Lisa Pollard deftly argues that the Egyptian state's modernizing projects in the nineteenth century reinforced ideals of monogamy and bourgeois domesticity among Egypt's elite classes and connected those ideals with political and economic success. At the same time, the British used domestic and personal practices such as polygamy, the harem, and the veiling of women to claim that the ruling ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520240230
SKU
V9780520240230
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About Lisa Pollard
Lisa Pollard is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina--Wilmington. She is the coeditor of Families of a New World: Gender, Politics and State-Building in Global Perspective (2003).
Reviews for Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923
"[An] ambitious and original work." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes)