Title Imagined empires : a history of revolt in Egypt / Zeinab Abul-Magd.

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Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource : illustrations
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: Imagined Empires, Real Rebels -- Ottomans, Plague, and Revolt (1500-1800) -- French, Plague Encore, and Jihad (1798-1801) -- The Pasha's Settlers, Bulls, and Bandits (1805-1848) -- A "Communist" Revolution (1848-1882) -- Rebellion in the Time of Cholera (1882-1950) -- Epilogue: America : Last Imagined Empire?
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Summary	Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the last five centuries. Imagined Empires charts modes of subaltern rebellion against the destructive policies of colonial intruders and collaborating local elites in the south of Egypt. Abul-Magd vividly narrates stories of sabotage, banditry, flight, and massive uprisings of peasants and laborers, to challenge myths of imperial competence. The book depicts forms of subaltern discontent against ""imagined empires"" t.
Subject	Egypt -- Politics and government.
	Peasants -- Political activity -- Egypt -- History.
	Working class -- Political activity -- Egypt -- History.
	Government, Resistance to -- Egypt -- History.
	Revolutions -- Egypt -- History.
	Imperialism -- History.
	Egypt -- Colonial influence.
	Elite (Social sciences) -- Egypt -- History.
	HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt.
	HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
	Colonial influence. (OCoLC)fst01352432
	Elite (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst00908113
	Government, Resistance to. (OCoLC)fst00945663
	Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
	Peasants -- Political activity. (OCoLC)fst01734422
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Revolutions. (OCoLC)fst01096737
	Working class -- Political activity. (OCoLC)fst01180500
	Egypt. (OCoLC)fst01208755
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic book.
Other Form:	Print version: Abul-Magd, Zeinab, 1976- Imagined empires. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013 9780520275522 (DLC) 2013003749 (OCoLC)828143784
ISBN	9780520956537 (electronic bk.)
	0520956532 (electronic bk.)
	9781299709393 (electronic bk.)
	1299709397 (electronic bk.)

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