Letters From Egypt To Plain Folks At Home

Author : Mary Whately
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359917365

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Letters From Egypt: To Plain Folks At Home by Mary Whately Pdf

Mary Whately�s letters paint a fascinating picture of life in Egypt in 1879. And her insight into customs, culture, and climate ring true even today. Plus, many Bible quotations and allusions are woven throughout the letters, along with illustrations of how life in Egypt reminded Mary of those passages. Letters from Egypt is a living geography book that will touch your mind, your imagination, and your heart.

Author : Mary L. Whately
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348017459

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Letters from Egypt to Plain Folks at Home by Mary L. Whately Pdf

Author : Mary Whately
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781447483472

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Letters From Egypt To Plain Folks At Home by Mary Whately Pdf

Mary Whately's letters offer a fascinating insight into life in Egypt in 1879, and will prove to be an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the people, customs, culture and climate of Egypt in this period. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Mary Louisa Whately
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OXFORD:600068906

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Letters from Egypt to Plain Folks at Home by Mary Louisa Whately Pdf

Author : Mary Louisa Whately
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230346163

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Letters from Egypt to Plain Folks at Home by Mary Louisa Whately Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... 107 LETTER IX. SLAVERY AS IT IS IN EGYPT, Egypt is fall of slaves. A great deal is written and said now about the hope that the slave traffic may be stopped, but this is a much more difficult thing than people in England have generally any idea of; there are besides the same difficulties which took so much time and trouble in the days of those good men who got the slave-trade abolished in our colonies, other difficulties which I need not enter on here: it is enough to say that there is no Wilberforce to labour and pray for years with his pious friends in the cause of the poor slaves, so I fear the time is not very near for their emancipation. Meanwhile, at all events, Egypt is full of them, as I said before; the cities, in .particular, are teeming with negro slaves. In America (in the Southern States, that is), till the late war, and long ago in our "West Indian Islands, field work was chiefly done by black slaves working in gangs, because white men could not work much in the heat of such climates. But that is not the case here; field labour is mostly done by the " children of the soil," and though a negro shepherd or herdsman is sometimes seen, the chief employment of slaves is as domestic servants. People of moderate fortune keep at least two or three; and, I am sorry to say, Christians quite as much as Moslems. Many who are in a position of life to do their own work keep a negress (who does it very imperfectly), and do nothing themselves. Of course the expense is great; really more than hiring a servant, because there is a large sum paid for the woman at first, and then she has to be fed and clothed, and being generally very wasteful, she costs a good deal. A cook or waiter in an European family will often keep a slave, and let his...

Author : Deborah Manley
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781617979873

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Women Travelers on the Nile by Deborah Manley Pdf

"Relentlessly entertaining"—Michelle Green, The New York Times Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go. From Eliza Fay’s description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney’s daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.

Author : Mine Ener
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0691113785

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Managing Egypt's Poor and the Politics of Benevolence, 1800-1952 by Mine Ener Pdf

This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time. As Mine Ener tells their fascinating stories alongside those of reformers, tourists, politicians, and philanthropists, she explores the economic, political, and colonial context that shaped poverty policy for a century and a half. While poverty and poverty relief have been extensively studied in the North American and European contexts, there has been little research done on the issue for the Middle East--and scant comprehensive presentation of the Islamic ethos that has guided charitable action in the region. Drawing on British and Egyptian archival sources, Ener documents transformations in poor relief, changing attitudes toward the public poor, the entrance of new state and private actors in the field of charity, the motivations behind their efforts, and the poor's use of programs created to help them. She also fosters a dialogue between Middle Eastern studies and those who study poverty relief elsewhere by explicitly comparing Egypt's poor relief to policies in Istanbul and also Western Europe, Russia, and North America. Heralding a new kind of research into how societies care for the destitute--and into the religious prerogatives that guide them--this book is one of the first in-depth studies of charity and philanthropy in a region whose social problems have never been of greater interest to the West.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433000292080

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Catalogue of Printed Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89065168296

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General Catalogue by Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge Pdf

Author : Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Egypt
ISBN : UOM:39015034611684

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The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year 1885 [i.e. 1887] Inclusive by Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434530

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Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950 by Anonim Pdf

From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and the roots of humanitarianism and its contemporary uses in a Middle Eastern context. Contributions focus on ideologies, rhetoric, and practices of missionaries and their apostolates towards humanitarianism, from the mid-19th century Middle East crises, examining different missionaries, their society’s worldview and their networks in various areas of the Middle East. In the early 20th century Christian missions increasingly paid more attention to organisation and bureaucratisation (‘rationalisation’), and media became more important to their work. The volume analyses how non-missionaries took over, to a certain extent, the aims and organisations of the missionaries as to humanitarianism. It seeks to discover and retrace such ‘entangled histories’ for the first time in an integral perspective. Contributors include: Beth Baron, Philippe Bourmaud, Seija Jalagin, Nazan Maksudyan, Michael Marten, Heleen (L.) Murre-van den Berg, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Idir Ouahes, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Bertrand Taithe, and Chantal Verdeil

Author : David Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555007005

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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas. Vol. 1-50; 51, no. 3- ol. 63 by David Thomas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2S4K

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The Book-analyst and Library Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z283204505

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“The” Academy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1425 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135456634

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Literature of Travel and Exploration by Jennifer Speake Pdf

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.