The Oxford handbook of modern Egyptian history
Until relatively recently, scholars of Egyptian history understood the modern period to begin with the movement of European people and ideas to Egypt's northern shores precipitated by Napoleon's invasion in 1798. From this perspective, modern Egyptian history was animated by the diverse an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2024, 2024
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| Series: | Oxford handbooks online / Oxford handbooks online
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| Collection: | Oxford Handbook Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Until relatively recently, scholars of Egyptian history understood the modern period to begin with the movement of European people and ideas to Egypt's northern shores precipitated by Napoleon's invasion in 1798. From this perspective, modern Egyptian history was animated by the diverse and sometimes-contradictory ways in which Egyptians responded over time to colonial power and modern forms of knowledge. This handbook, featuring 26 originally commissioned essays by top scholars in the field, adds to a growing literature that complicates the facile colonizer-colonized and modern-tradition binaries undergirding this view |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2024 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780190072766 |