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State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Ehud R. Toledano
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2003-02-13
主題
History / Middle East / Egypt
History / Middle East / General
History / World
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0521534534
9780521534536
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=65d8iIVdob8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Previous studies of nineteenth-century Egypt have often been premature in identifying the existence of an independent nation state. In a way which will permanently affect our view of Egyptian history, this book argues that in the mid-nineteenth-century period Egypt was still an Ottoman province, with a provincial Ottoman elite which was only gradually becoming Egyptian. Part one discusses the creation of a dynastic order in Egypt, especially under Abbas Pasa (1848-1854), and the formation of an Ottoman-Egyptian ruling class. Part two deals with the non-elite groups, the vast majority of Egypt's population. A final chapter offers a convincing picture of the social and cultural life of the period in a way which has never before been attempted in a Middle East context. The author's valuable knowledge of Ottoman and Arabic as well as European documents and his use of a wide variety of sources, including police and court records, chronicles and travel literature, have enabled him to make an important contribution to a neglected period of Egyptian history and indeed to our understanding of other provinces and dependencies in the region.