Large Landowning Class and Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952

Informationen zum Autor Raouf Abbas was professor of modern history at Cairo University, president of the Egyptian Society for Historical Studies, and a pioneer in the study of social history. He authored numerous books in Arabic and coedited Society and Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900. Assem El-Dessouky is professor emeritus of modern history at Helwan University. Klappentext This work, appearing in English for the first time, outlines the formation of a landowning class in early-nineteenth century Egypt and continues through the 1800s to a time when the law on landholding gradually moved toward a legal formulation of private property. The work then traces landowners as they started to penetrate political and legislative structures to finally become the most influential social group by the first half of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Combined into one volume and translated into English for the first time from two seminal Arabic works published in the 1970s! this book offers a comprehensive analysis of landownership and its effects on Egyptian society. The authors draw from extensive archival sources! successfully integrating in their work the competing forces of the state! the landlords! and the peasants.

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• Authors: Raof El-Dessouky Abbas, Raouf Abbas, Raouf And El-Dessouky Abbas, Raouf/ El-dessouky Abbas, Assem El-Dessouky
• Assisted by: Peter Gran (Editor), Amer Mohsen (Translation), Amer And Zikri Mohsen (Translation), Mona Zikri (Translation)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780815632870
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3287-0
• No. of pages: 293
• Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dom; Middle East Studies Beyond Dom; Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous