| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 355 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1. The "Ever-Melting" City; 2. Department Stores and Downtown Shopping; 3. Anticolonial Boycotts and National Trade; 4. Socks, Shoes, and Marketing Mass Consumption; 5. Postwar Commodity Parables and the Crackingof Late Colonialism; 6. The Cairo Fire and Postcolonial Consumption; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. The logic behind this latter view has now been largely lost. Offering a revised history, Nancy Reynolds looks to the decades leading up to the fire to show that the lines between foreign and native in city space and commercial merchandise were never so starkly drawn. Consumer goods occupied an uneasy place on anti-colonial agendas for decades. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Revolution (Egypt : 1952) |
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Consumption (Economics) -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 20th century.
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Consumption (Economics) |
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Egypt -- Cairo. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Economic aspects -- Egypt.
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Nationalism -- Economic aspects. |
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Egypt. |
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Nationalism. |
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Cairo (Egypt) -- Commerce -- History -- 20th century.
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Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1919-1952.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1919-1952 |
| Subject |
Egypt -- History -- Revolution, 1952.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reynolds, Nancy Y. City consumed. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2012 9780804781268 (DLC) 2012001451 (OCoLC)764360943 |
| ISBN |
9780804782661 (electronic book) |
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0804782660 (electronic book) |
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9780804781268 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804781265 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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