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Author Pollard, Lisa, author.

Title Nurturing the nation : the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt, 1805-1923 / Lisa Pollard
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 287 pages) : illustrations
Contents My house and yours : Egyptian state servants and the new geography of nationalism -- Inside Egypt : the harem, the hovel and the Western construction of an Egyptian national landscape -- Domesticating Egypt : the gendered politics of the British occupation -- The home, the classroom and the cultivation of Egyptian nationalism -- Table talk : the home economics of nationhood -- Reform on display : the family politics of the 1919 revolution -- Conclusion : It's a girl! Gender and the birth of modern Egyptian nationalism
Summary Focusing on gender & the family, this text reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism & the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class & household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-276) and index
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Subject Families -- Egypt
Family policy -- Egypt -- Cross-cultural studies -- History
Family policy -- Egypt -- Cross-cultural studies -- History
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Families
Family policy
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041300
Egypt -- History -- 20th century
Egypt
Subject Egypt
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520937536
0520937538
1597347795
9781597347792