LEADER 02357nam 22004453u 450 001 9910450333003321 005 20210114201313.0 010 $a0-520-92825-3 010 $a1-59734-880-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007007 035 $a(EBL)224371 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224371 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007007 100 $a20140414d2002|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aRule of Experts$b[electronic resource] $eEgypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (429 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-23261-5 311 $a0-520-23262-3 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; I. PARA-SITES OF CAPITALISM; 1. Can the Mosquito Speak?; 2. Principles True in Every Country; 3. The Character of Calculability; II. PEASANT STUDIES; 4. The Invention and Reinvention of the Peasant; 5. Nobody Listens to a Poor Man; 6. Heritage and Violence; III. FIXING THE ECONOMY; 7. The Object of Development; 8. The Market's Place; 9. Dreamland; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; 330 $aCan one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution 606 $aEgypt-- Economic policy 606 $aPeasantry 606 $aPeasantry - Egypt - History - 20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aEgypt-- Economic policy. 615 4$aPeasantry. 615 4$aPeasantry - Egypt - History - 20th century. 676 $a330.1220962 676 $a338.962 700 $aMitchell$b Timothy$0658201 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450333003321 996 $aRule of experts$91548046 997 $aUNINA