The Pasha S Peasants

Author : Kenneth M. Cuno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004072067

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The Pasha's Peasants by Kenneth M. Cuno Pdf

This is a revisionist study of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural origins of modern Egypt, dealing with the first phase of the rise of the modern state and the country's incorporation into the world economy. Professor Cuno uses previously underexploited sources - court records, fatwas, and land-tax registers - to shed new light on changes in the system of peasant land tenure, urban-rural commerce, the rural social structure, and the interplay of formal law with peasant customs and attitudes. The author challenges traditional interpretations of Egypt's past which draw too sharp a distinction between the 'Ottoman' and 'modern' periods, a distinction closely related to the notion that contact with Europe brought on the 'awakening' of the modern nation. Cuno offers a new perspective on changes introduced in the agrarian regime by Muhammad Ali Pasha (1805-48) by comparing them with the policies of earlier rulers. He also refutes the view that cash-crop agriculture, the commoditization of land, and a stratified rural society were nineteenth-century developments, showing instead that they were centuries-old features of the Egyptian countryside. The Pasha's peasants will be of interest not only to students of Egyptian and Middle East history but also to those with a general interest in issues of law and society, peasants, and the making of the modern non-Western world.

Author : Alan Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429704277

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Egypt's Agricultural Development, 1800-1980 by Alan Richards Pdf

This book uses both microeconomic theory and social and political analysis to show how the interaction of social classes, technical change, government policy, and the international and state systems have shaped Egypt's agricultural development.

Author : Maha Ghalwash
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649032782

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State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt by Maha Ghalwash Pdf

An alternative reading of the relationship between the state and smallholder peasants in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt This book examines the rural history of Egypt during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a period that is often glossed over, or altogether forgotten. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, some only rarely utilized by other scholars, it argues that state policy targeting the peasant land tenure regime was informed by the dual economic principles of the Ottoman, or traditional, philosophy of statecraft, and that the workings of the relevant regulations did not produce extensive peasant land loss and impoverishment. Maha Ghalwash presents a rich, detailed analysis of such crucial issues as land legislation, tax impositions, the system of tax collection, modes of land acquisition, large-scale peasant abandonment of land, the emergence of surplus lands, the formation of large, privileged estates, distribution of village land, female land inheritance, and the nature of peasants’ political activity. In investigating these issues, she highlights peasant voices, experiences, and agential power. Traditional interpretations of the rural history of nineteenth-century Egypt generally specify an avaricious state, so indifferent to peasant well-being that it consistently developed harsh policies that led to unremitting, extensive peasant impoverishment. Through an examination of the relationship between the absolutist state and the majority of its subject population, the peasant smallholders, during 1848–63, this study shows that these ideas do not hold for the mid-century period. State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt will be of interest to students of Middle East history, especially Egyptian rural history, as well as those of peasant studies, subaltern studies, gender studies, and Ottoman rural history.

Author : Sylvia G. Haim,Elie Kedourie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135780371

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Modern Egypt by Sylvia G. Haim,Elie Kedourie Pdf

First published in 1980, 'Modern Egypt, Studies in Politics and Society' is an important contribution to the field of History.

Author : Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848136403

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A Daughter of Isis by Nawal El Saadawi Pdf

'Against the white sand, the contours of my father's body were well defined, emphasized its existence in a world where everything was liquid, where the blue of the sea melted into the blue of the sky with nothing between. This independent existence was to become the outer world, the world of my father, of land, country, religion, language, moral codes. It was to become the world around me. A world made of male bodies in which my female body lived.' Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. For her, writing and action have been inseperable and this is reflected in some of the most evocative and disturbing novels ever written about Arab women. Born in a small Egyptian village in 1931, she eluded the grasp of suitors before whom her family displayed her when she was still ten years old and went on to qualify as a medical doctor. In 1969, she published her first work of non-fiction, Women and Sex; in 1972, she was dismissed from her profession because of her political activism. From then on there was no respite: imprisonment under Sadat in 1981 was the culmination of the long struggle she had waged for Egyptian women's social and intellectual freedom; in 1992, her name appeared on a death list issued by a fundamentalist group after which she went into exile for five years. Since then, she has devoted her time to writing novels and essays and to her activities as a worldwide speaker on women’s issues. A Daughter of Isis is the autobiography of this extraordinary woman. In it she paints a sensuously textured portrait of the childhood that produced the freedom fighter. We see how she moulded her own creative power into a weapon - how, from an early age, the use of words became an act of rebellion against injustice.

Author : Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1856496805

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A Daughter of Isis by Nawāl Saʻdāwī Pdf

Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. In her life and in her writings, this struggle against sexual discrimination has always been linked to a struggle against all forms of oppression: religious, racial, colonial and neo-colonial. In 1969, she published her first work of non-fiction, Women and Sex ; in 1972, her writings and her struggles led to her dismissal from her job. From then on there was no respite; imprisonment under Sadat in 1981 was the culmination of the long war she had fought for Egyptian women's social and intellectual freedom. A Daughter of Isis is the autobiography of this extraordinary woman.

Author : Alan Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89011225521

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Accumulation, Distribution and Technical Change in Egyptian Agriculture, 1800-1940 by Alan Richards Pdf

Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
ISBN : UOM:39015011687129

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Handbook for Travellers in Greece by John Murray (Firm) Pdf

Author : Lothrop Stoddard
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547311911

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The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard Pdf

The entire world of Islam is today in profound ferment. From Morocco to China and from Turkestan to the Congo, the 250,000,000 followers of the Prophet Mohammed are stirring to new ideas, new impulses, new aspirations. The story of that strange and dramatic evolution the author has endeavored to tell in the following pages. Considering in turn its various aspects—religious, cultural, political, economic, social—the author has tried to portray their genesis and development, to analyze their character, and to appraise their potency. While making due allowance for local differentiations, the intimate correlation and underlying unity of the various movements have ever been kept in view. Although the book deals primarily with the Muslim world, it necessarily includes the non-Muslim Hindu elements of India. The field covered is thus virtually the entire Near and Middle East. The Far East has not been directly considered, but parallel developments there have been noted and should always be kept in mind.

Author : Reuven Aharoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134268214

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The Pasha's Bedouin by Reuven Aharoni Pdf

Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads from the deserts to the Nile Valley. Mehemet Ali’s era represented the initial ending of the traditional tribalism, and the beginning of emergence of a semi-urban community, which became an integral part of the sedentarised population. Providing a new perspective on tribal life in Egypt under Mehemet Ali Pasha's rule, The Pasha’s Bedouin examines the social and political aspects of the Bedouin during 1805-1848. By highlighting the complex relationships which developed between the government of the Pasha and the Bedouin, Reuven Aharoni sets out to expose the Bedouin as a specialised social sector of the urban economy and as integral to the economic and political life in Egypt at the time. This study aims to question of whether the elements of bureaucratic culture which characterised the central and provincial administration of the Pasha, indicate special attitudes towards this sector of the population. Subjects covered include: The 'Bedouin' policy of Mehemet Ali Territory and identity, tribal economies Tribe and state relations Tribal leadership With a long experience in fieldwork among Bedouin in the Sinai and the Negev, as well as using a range of archival documents and manuscripts both in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, this highly researched book provides an essential read for historians, anthropologists and political scientists in the field of social and political history of the Middle East. Reuven Aharoni, Ph.D (2001) in Middle Eastern History, Tel-Aviv University, teaches history of the Middle East at the Haifa University and at the Open University of Israel.

Author : Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00047198

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A Handbook for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor and Constantinople by Murray Pdf

Author : Terence Walz,Kenneth M. Cuno
Publisher : I.B.Tauris
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617973796

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Race and Slavery in the Middle East by Terence Walz,Kenneth M. Cuno Pdf

In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and on abolitionist efforts to end the slave trade, and most have relied heavily on western language sources. In the past forty years new sources have become available, ranging from Egyptian religious and civil court and police records to rediscovered archives and accounts in western archives and libraries. Along with new developments in the study of African slavery these sources provide a perspective on the lives of non-elite trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth century Egypt and beyond. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt and the region. Contributors: Kenneth M. Cuno, Y. Hakan Erdem, Michael Ferguson, Emad Ahmad Helal Shams al-Din, Liat Kozma, George Michael La Rue, Ahmad A. Sikainga, Eve M. Troutt Powell, and Terence Walz.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Early English newspapers
ISBN : UOM:39015027525909

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The Gentleman's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.

Author : Perri Giovannucci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135904982

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Literature and Development in North Africa by Perri Giovannucci Pdf

A critique of modern development may be traced in the postcolonial and anti-colonial literature about North Africa. Works by Fanon, Camus, Djebar, Mahfouz, El Saadawi, Said, and others, offer a window upon contemporary modernization and related issues of identity, independence, and social justice.

Author : Rashid Khalidi,Lisa Anderson,Muhammad Y. Muslih,Reeva S. Simon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0231074352

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The Origins of Arab Nationalism by Rashid Khalidi,Lisa Anderson,Muhammad Y. Muslih,Reeva S. Simon Pdf

Contributors, including C. Ernest Dawn, Mahmoud Haddad, Reeva Simon, and Beth Baron, provide a broad survey of the Arab world at the turn of the century, permitting a comparison of developments in a variety of settings from Syria and Egypt to the Hijaz, Libya, and Iraq.