
Nurturing the Nation
The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923
Lisa Pollard(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-0-520-24023-0 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on gender and the family, this erudite and innovative history reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class and household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule. Lisa Pollard deftly argues that the Egyptian state's modernizing projects in the nineteenth century reinforced ideals of monogamy and bourgeois domesticity among Egypt's elite classes and connected those ideals with political and economic success. At the same time, the British used domestic and personal practices such as polygamy, the harem, and the veiling of women to claim that the ruling classes had become corrupt and therefore to legitimize an open-ended tenure for themselves in Egypt. To rid themselves of British rule, bourgeois Egyptian nationalists constructed a familial-political culture that trained new generations of nationalists and used them to demonstrate to the British that it was time for the occupation to end. That culture was put to use in the 1919 Egyptian revolution, in which the reformed, bourgeois family was exhibited as the standard for "modern" Egypt.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
10 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-24023-0 (9780520240230)
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Lisa Pollard
Nurturing the Nation
The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923
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Person
Lisa Pollard is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina--Wilmington. She is the coeditor of Families of a New World: Gender, Politics and State-Building in Global Perspective (2003).