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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.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 287 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Families -- Egypt -- History.
Family policy -- Egypt -- Cross-cultural studies -- History.
Egypt -- History -- 19th century.
Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0520240227 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520240235 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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