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Format: xiii, 341 Seiten : , Illustrationen, 2 Karten ; , 23 cm.

ISBN: 978-0-520-27613-0 , 978-0-520-27614-7

Note: Titel der Disseration "Egyptian times: Temporality, personhood, and the technopolitical making of modern Egypt, 1830-1930" , Dissertation New York University 2009

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-520-95656-8

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Technische Innovation ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 321 Seiten) : , Illustrationen, Karten.

ISBN: 978-0-520-97393-0

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-520-31072-8

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-520-33967-5

Language: English

Subjects: Economics , Political Science , Ethnology

Keywords: Fossiler Brennstoff ; Kohlenwirtschaft ; Herrschaft ; Weltwirtschaft

DOI: 10.1525/9780520973930

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Format: xvi, 321 Seiten : , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten ; , 24 cm.

ISBN: 978-0-520-31072-8 , 978-0-520-33967-5

Content: Introduction : energy and empire -- Water -- Animals -- Humans -- Environment -- Risk -- Fossil

Content: "Global decarbonization is humanity's most pressing challenge. Powering Empire offers the first historical roadmap charting how the world was carbonized. It also jettisons some misleading yet prevalent myths and clears impediments to this task. One is the naïve assumption that we are currently living in the age of oil, or even post-oil, and that coal fumes are a thing of the past. Quite the reverse! This is still the age of coal and much of what we associate with oil rests upon the foundations of coal. We must also overturn the conjecture that global carbonization started in Western Europe and then spread to the rest of the world. Settings like the Ottoman Empire were early arenas for testing and adopting coal and steamships. The steamer-friendly corridors running between Europe and Asia--which would become the "Middle East"--stimulated British industrialization and imperial expansion simultaneously. Finally, we must resist the control of energy on all things fossil: the globalization of the hydrocarbon economy cannot be reduced to considerations of fueling alone. Coal depots were also created as a pretext for imperial land grab, out of concerns about ballasting, and stemmed from aspects of coal that had little to do with its combustion. This book, therefore, reveals a thickening carbon-intensive entanglement of energy and empire, of Western and non-Western powers, thereby excavating unfamiliar resources--from Islamic risk-aversion, through Ottoman attitudes to the underground, to Gandhian vegetarianism--for a climate justice that relies on a more diverse ethical repertoire."

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 283-309. - Index: Seite 311-321

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520973930

Language: English

Subjects: Economics , Political Science , Ethnology

Keywords: Fossiler Brennstoff ; Kohlenwirtschaft ; Herrschaft ; Weltwirtschaft

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-520-27614-0 , 0-520-95656-7

Content: In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness. These counter tempos, predicated on uneasiness over "dehumanizing" European standards of efficiency, sprang from and contributed to non-linear modes of arranging time. Barak shows how these counter tempos formed and developed with each new technological innovation during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, contributing to a particularly Egyptian sense of time that extends into the present day, exerting influence over contemporary political language in the Arab world. The universal notion of a modern mechanical standard time and the deviations supposedly characterizing non-Western settings "from time immemorial," On Time provocatively argues, were in fact mutually constitutive and mutually reinforcing.

Note: Revised version of the author's dissertation--New York University, 2009. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Maps -- , Figures -- , Acknowledgments -- , Note on Transliteration -- , Introduction: Another Time? -- , 1. En Route -- , 2. Double Standards -- , 3. Effendi Hauntologies -- , 4. Harmonization and Its Discords -- , 5. The Urban Politics of Slowness -- , 6. Counterclockwise Revolution -- , 7. On Hold -- , Conclusion: Countertemporality -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-27613-2

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-299-71326-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.1525/9780520956568

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780520956568 (ebook) :

Content: In this history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2013.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780520276130

Language: English

URL: California scholarship online