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State and society in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt / Ehud R. Toledano.

By: Toledano, Ehud RMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Middle East library ; 22.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003Description: 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521534534 (paperback); 9780521534536 (paperback)Subject(s): Social classes -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century | Egypt -- Social conditions | Egypt -- Rural conditions | Egypt -- Politics and government -- 640-1882 | Egypt -- History -- 19th centuryLOC classification: HN786.A8 | T65 2003
Incomplete contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Introduction: the forgotten years, p.1 -- Part I. THE OTTOMAN-EGYPTIAN ELITE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, p.37 -- Introduction, p.39 -- 1. Dissent and opposition, p.41 -- 2. Creation of a dynastic order, p.50 -- 3. The mainstay of dynastic order - the elite, p.68 -- 4. The realities of office holding, p.94 -- 5. The demon-image of Abbas Paşa: evidence and counter-evidence, p.108 -- 6. The demon-image as a product of elite culture, p.135 -- Part II. THE SOCIAL DIVIDE AND THE LIFE OF THE LOWER STRATA, p.149 -- Introduction, p.151 -- 7. The great social divide in Egyptian society, p.155 -- 8. The rural squeeze - pressure and resistance in the countryside, p.181 -- 9. Rural migrants and urban attitudes, p.196 -- 10. The urban squeeze, p.206 -- 11. The network of urban control, p.221 -- 12. The use of unappropriated time, p.231 --Epilogue, p.249 -- Notes, p.254 -- Bibliography, p.302 -- Index, p.312.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 62 - Reading Room 		H2m TOLED 26199 Not for loan BOOKS-000000026520

Originally published: 1990.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 302-311.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

List of plates, p.xi --Preface, p.xiii --Note on transliteration, dates, and references, p.xiv -- Introduction: the forgotten years, p.1 -- Part I. THE OTTOMAN-EGYPTIAN ELITE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, p.37 -- Introduction, p.39 -- 1. Dissent and opposition, p.41 -- 2. Creation of a dynastic order, p.50 -- 3. The mainstay of dynastic order - the elite, p.68 -- 4. The realities of office holding, p.94 -- 5. The demon-image of Abbas Paşa: evidence and counter-evidence, p.108 -- 6. The demon-image as a product of elite culture, p.135 -- Part II. THE SOCIAL DIVIDE AND THE LIFE OF THE LOWER STRATA, p.149 -- Introduction, p.151 -- 7. The great social divide in Egyptian society, p.155 -- 8. The rural squeeze - pressure and resistance in the countryside, p.181 -- 9. Rural migrants and urban attitudes, p.196 -- 10. The urban squeeze, p.206 -- 11. The network of urban control, p.221 -- 12. The use of unappropriated time, p.231 --Epilogue, p.249 -- Notes, p.254 -- Bibliography, p.302 -- Index, p.312.