Gatekeepers of the Arab Past - Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt

Zusatztext "The book is extremely ambitious! and the reader will immediately appreciate . . . Di-Capua's efforts in undertaking such a monumental task." Informationen zum Autor Yoav Di-Capua is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext "An enormous contribution to the study of Egyptian history writing and historiography. Sure to become the basic manual for understanding the trajectory of modern Egyptian thinking."-Roger Owen! author of State! Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East Zusammenfassung A study that illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, it explores Egyptian historical thought and examines the careers of numerous critical historians. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Historicizing Ottoman Egypt: 1890-1906 2. Talking History: 1906-1920 3. The House of Records: The 1920s 4. Competing for History: 1930-1952 5. Ghurbal's School: 1930-1952 6. Partisan Historiography: The 1940s and Beyond 7. Demonstrating History: The 1950s 8. Controlling History: The 1960s 9. Authoritarian Pluralism: 1970-2000 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Yoav Di-Capua
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2009
• EAN: 9780520257337
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25733-7
• No. of pages: 406
• Series: University of California Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, Egypt, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt