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200 10$aRule of experts$b[electronic resource] $eEgypt, techno-politics, modernity
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2002
215   $a1 online resource (429 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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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
607   $aEgypt$xEconomic policy
607   $aEgypt$xEconomic conditions$y1919-1952
607   $aEgypt$xEconomic conditions$y1952-
607   $aEgypt$xPolitics and government$y20th century
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610   $adisease.
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610   $aessay anthology.
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610   $amalaria.
610   $amiddle east.
610   $amodern world.
610   $anational economy.
610   $anationalism.
610   $apeasants.
610   $aplagiarism.
610   $apolitical theory.
610   $apolitical.
610   $apolitics.
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610   $astereotypes.
610   $asugar cane.
610   $atechno politics.
610   $atechno science.
610   $atechnology.
610   $awartime.
615  4$aEgypt-- Economic policy.
615  4$aPeasantry.
615  4$aPeasantry - Egypt - History - 20th century.
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