Subalterns and Social Protest History from below in the Middle East and North Africa

Name: Subalterns and Social Protest History from below in the Middle East and North Africa
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ISBN: 9780415423557

ISBN-10: 0415423554

ISBN-13: 9780415423557

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stephanie Cronin

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List price: $190.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 322
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.57" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.496



Contributors


Acknowledgements


Note on Transliteration


Introduction




The Urban Crowd and Popular Protest



Street Violence and Social Imagination in Late Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus (c.1500-1800)




Women and Popular Protest: women's demonstrations in nineteenth-century




Poor People's Politics



Popular Protest, the Market and the State in Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-Century Egypt




Workless Revolutionaries: the unemployed movement in revolutionary Iran




Transforming the city from below: shantytown dwellers and the fight for electricity in Casablanca




Peasants and Nomads



Resisting the New State: the rural poor, land and modernity in Iran, 1921-1941




Marginals and Outcasts



Probing the Margins: Gypsies (Roma) in Ottoman Society, c.1450-1600




Emancipated Female Slaves in Algiers: marriage, property and social advancement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries




European Subalterns



"Making It" in Pre-Colonial Tunis: migration, work, and poverty in a Mediterranean port-city, c.1815-1870




Foreign Workers in Egypt 1882-1914: subalterns or labour elite?




Subalterns and National Movements



From National Heroes to National Villains: bandits, pirates and the formation of modern Greece




Seizing the Initiative, Regaining a Voice: the Palestinian al-Aqsa Intifada as a struggle of the marginalized