The Pasha's Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858 - Softcover

Cuno, Kenneth M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597409499 ISBN 13: 9781597409490

Publisher: ACLS Humanities E-Book, 2015

Synopsis

A study of peasant land-owning and its attendant social and economic changes during the making of modern Egypt.

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Book Description

This is a pathbreaking study of the rural origins of modern Egypt, dealing with the period of the rise of the modern state and the country's incorporation into the world economy. Professor Cuno uses previously underexploited sources to shed new light on changes in the system of peasant land tenure, urban-rural commerce, the rural social structure, and the interplay of formal law with peasant customs and attitudes.

Review

'This book provides the first comprehensive scholarly account of the condition of rural Egypt in the late-eighteenth century and the impact on it of Muhammad Ali's innovations and reforms. As such it addresses a complex set of historical questions which have been raised by a large number of previous authors over the past three decades and, for the first time, provides a set of well-justified, well-argued answers. It is thus an admirable example of a work of criticism and scholarly interpretation based, for the first time, on a mastery of the most important, primary historical sources.' Roger Owen

Edition details

• Publisher: ACLS Humanities E-Book
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1597409499
• ISBN 13: 9781597409490
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 296