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Author Pollard, Lisa.

Title Nurturing the nation : the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt (1805/1923) / Lisa Pollard.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HQ691.7 .P65 2005    Available  ---
Description xv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Subject Families -- Egypt -- History.
Families.
Egypt.
History.
Family policy -- Egypt -- Cross-cultural studies -- History.
Family policy.
Cross-cultural studies.
Egypt -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
ISBN 0520240227 cloth alkaline paper
0520240235 paperback alkaline paper