The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History (Oxford Handbooks)

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: New Directions in Egyptian History
Part I. Medicine, Environment, and Disease
	1. Medicine and Public Health in the Nineteenth Century
	2. Midwives and Childbirth during Colonial and Semi-​Colonial Rule
	3. Health and Nation: The Egyptian Medical Profession under British Rule
	4. Colonizing and Decolonizing Egyptian Medicine
	5. The Body of the Nile: Environmental Disease in the Long Twentieth Century
Part II. Technology, Mobility, and Labor
	6. Coalonizing Egypt: Carbonization in the Long Nineteenth Century
	7. Of Machines and Men: Mechanization and Migrant Labor on the Suez Canal, 1859–​64
	8. Rethinking the Greeks of Egypt: Individuals and Community
	9. Gendering the History of the Labor Movement
	10. Dams, Ditches, and Drains: Managing Egypt’s Modern Hydroscape
Part III. Law and Society
	11. Hostages of Credit: The Imprisonment of Debtors in the Khedival Period
	12. An Erased Experiment: Penal Legislation between 1823 and 1883
	13. Marriage and Family between the Mid-​Nineteenth and Early Twenty-​First Centuries
	14. Refashioning the Shari‘a Courts in the Semi-Colonial Period
	15. From the Common Good to Public Interest
Part IV. Textual, Performative, and Visual Culture
	16. Egypt’s State Periodical as a Tool of Governance, 1828–​39
	17. Rethinking Literacy during the Nahda: The Many Lives of Texts
	18. Photography, Selfhood, and Cultural Modernity
	19. Taking Comedy Seriously: Theater in the 1920s
	20. Hollywood on the Nile: Cinema and Revolution
Part V. State, Politics, and Intellectuals
	21. Encounters with Modernity: Egyptian Politics in the Nineteenth Century
	22. Local Enlightenment in the Colonial Period: Ahmad Lutfi al-​Sayyid in Perspective
	23. State, Intellectuals, and the Past
	24. The Army, State, and Society
	25. Archives of Our Discontent: Nationalism and Historiography after 2011
Index