| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: another time? -- En route -- Double standards -- Effendi hauntologies -- Harmonization and its discords -- The urban politics of slowness -- Counterclockwise revolution -- On hold -- Conclusion: countertemporality |
| Summary |
In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness. These countertempos, predicated on uneasiness over ""dehumanizing"" European standards of eff |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis--New York University, 2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Time -- Social aspects -- Egypt
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Time perception -- Social aspects -- Egypt
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Technology -- Social aspects -- Egypt
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Social conditions
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Time perception -- Social aspects
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Time -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- History -- British occupation, 1882-1936.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041304
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Egypt -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Egypt -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013010761 |
| ISBN |
0520956567 |
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9780520956568 |
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9781299713260 |
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1299713262 |
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0520276132 |
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9780520276130 |
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0520276140 |
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9780520276147 |
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