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Nurturing the nation

Pollard, Lisa.

Nurturing the nation the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt (1805/1923) / [electronic resource] : Lisa Pollard. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005. - xiii, 287 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

My house and yours -- Egyptian state servants and the new geography of nationhood -- Inside Egypt -- The harem, the hovel and the Western construction of an Egyptian landscape -- Domesticating Egypt -- The gendered politics of the British occupation -- The home, the schoolroom and the cultivation of Egyptian nationalism -- Table talk, or the home economics of nationhood -- The household on display -- The family politics of the 1919 revolution -- Gender and the birth of the modern Egyptian nation-state.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.




Families--History.--Egypt
Family policy--Cross-cultural studies--History.--Egypt


Egypt--History--19th century.
Egypt--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

HQ691.7 / .P65 2005eb

306.85/0962

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