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Nurturing the nation the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt (1805/1923)

Title
Nurturing the nation [electronic resource] : the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt (1805/1923) / Lisa Pollard.
Author
Pollard, Lisa.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.

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Description
1 online resource (xv, 287 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Nurturing the nation (Online)
Alternative Title
Nurturing the nation (Online)
Subject
  • Families > Egypt > History
  • Family policy > Egypt > Cross-cultural studies > History
  • Egypt > History > 19th century
  • Egypt > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
My house and yours -- Egyptian state servants and the new geography of nationhood -- Inside Egypt -- The harem, the hovel and the Western construction of an Egyptian landscape -- Domesticating Egypt -- The gendered politics of the British occupation -- The home, the schoolroom and the cultivation of Egyptian nationalism -- Table talk, or the home economics of nationhood -- The household on display -- The family politics of the 1919 revolution -- Gender and the birth of the modern Egyptian nation-state.
LCCN
2004005280
OCLC
ssj0000213006
Author
Pollard, Lisa.
Title
Nurturing the nation [electronic resource] : the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt (1805/1923) / Lisa Pollard.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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