Gasper, Michael Ezekiel, 1963-

The power of representation publics, peasants, and Islam in Egypt / [electronic resource] : Michael Ezekiel Gasper. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009. - 294p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The formation and the emergence of the peasant question -- People, peasants, and intellectuals -- Five peasant characters in search of bourgeois identity or afandis in gallabiyas -- Scientific agriculture : cultivators, agriculturalists or peasants? -- The new peasant, colonial identity and the modern state.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






National characteristics, Egyptian.
Peasants--History.--Egypt
Islamic modernism--History.--Egypt


Egypt--Intellectual life.


Electronic books.

DT70 / .G37 2009eb

962/.04