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Format: 1 online resource (377 pages)

ISBN: 9780804782661

Content: This book offers a reinterpretation of an important popular uprising in Cairo in 1952 by looking at the patterns of commerce and urban development over the previous four decades.

Content: Intro -- 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.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780804781268

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804781268

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xvii, 355 p.) : , ill., maps.

ISBN: 9780804782661 (ebook) :

Content: 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, this book 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.

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780804781268

Language: English

URL: Stanford scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8047-8266-0

Content: 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 in Egypt before the great Cairo Fire. Nationalist leaders frequently railed against commerce as a form of colonial captivity, yet simultaneously expanded local production and consumption to anchor a newly independent economy. Close examination of struggles over dress and shopping reveals that nationhood coalesced informally from the conflicts and collaboration of consumers "from below" as well as more institutional and prescriptive mandates.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , 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 Cracking of Late Colonialism -- , 6 The Cairo Fire and Postcolonial Consumption -- , Conclusion -- , Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8047-8126-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780804782661