State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt
State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt
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GBPPrevious studies of nineteenth-century Egypt have often been premature in identifying the existence of an independent nation state. In a way which will permanently affect our view of Egyptian history, this book argues that in the mid-nineteenth-century period Egypt was still an Ottoman province, with a provincial Ottoman elite which was only gradually becoming Egyptian.
Part one discusses the creation of a dynastic order in Egypt, especially under Abbas Pasa (1848-1854), and the formation of an Ottoman-Egyptian ruling class. Part two deals with the non-elite groups, the vast majority of Egypt's population. A final chapter offers a convincing picture of the social and cultural life of the period in a way which has never before been attempted in a Middle East context. The author's valuable knowledge of Ottoman and Arabic as well as European documents and his use of a wide variety of sources, including police and court records, chronicles and travel literature, have enabled him to make an important contribution to a neglected period of Egyptian history and indeed to our understanding of other provinces and dependencies in the region.
Product details
February 2003Paperback
9780521534536
336 pages
229 × 152 × 23 mm
0.502kg
10 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Note on transliteration, dates, and references
- Introduction: the forgotten years
- Part I. The Ottoman-Egyptian Elite in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Introduction
- 1. Dissent and opposition
- 2. Creation of a dynastic order
- 3. The mainstay of dynastic order - the elite
- 4. The realities of office holding
- 5. The demon-image of Abbas Pasa: evidence and counter-evidence
- 6. The demon-image as a product of elite culture
- Part II. The Social Divide and the Life of the Lower Strata: Introduction
- 7. The great social divide in Egyptian society
- 8. The rural squeeze - pressure and resistance in the countryside
- 9. Rural migrants and urban attitudes
- 10. The urban squeeze
- 11. The network of urban control
- 12. The use of unappropriated time
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
