Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination / / Amira Mittermaier
| Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination / / Amira Mittermaier |
| Autore | Mittermaier Amira |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Disciplina | 154.63096216 |
| Soggetto topico |
Dreams - Islam - Religious aspects - Egypt
Dream interpretation - Egypt Dreams - Egypt Ethnopsychology |
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anthropologists
anthropology cairo contemporary egypt contemporary history cultural history divination divine connection divine dreams dream diaries dream interpretation dream interpreters dream theory egypt ethnography freud historians imagination islamic revival islamic tradition material life middle east studies muslims nonfiction social historians social history social reform social science sufi group superstition western theorists |
| ISBN |
1-283-27738-7
9786613277381 0-520-94785-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- On Transliterations and Translations -- Prelude -- Introduction: Studying Dreams in Undreamy Times -- 1. Dream Trouble -- 2. Thresholds of Interpretation -- 3. Seeing the (In)visible -- 4. Poetry and Prophecy -- 5. The Ethics of the Visitational Dream -- 6. The Royal Road into the Unknown -- 7. Virtual Realities, Visionary Realities -- Afterword: On the Politics of Dreaming -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785591803321 |
Mittermaier Amira
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Eastern Mediterranean and the making of global radicalism, 1860-1914 [[electronic resource] /] / Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
| The Eastern Mediterranean and the making of global radicalism, 1860-1914 [[electronic resource] /] / Ilham Khuri-Makdisi |
| Autore | Khuri-Makdisi Ilham |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.5/68 |
| Collana | The California world history library |
| Soggetto topico |
Radicalism - Egypt - Cairo - History
Radicalism - Egypt - Alexandria - History Radicalism - Lebanon - Beirut - History |
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1860
1914 alexandria anarchists beirut cairo discussion books dramatists eastern mediterranean global history global radicalism greeks historical perspective historical history buffs intellectualism intellectuals italians middle east nationalism ottoman syrians political issues political philosophy political radical movements radical thought social history socialist ideals socialist workers turn of the century world history |
| ISBN |
1-283-29176-2
9786613291769 0-520-94546-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The late nineteenth-century World and the Emergence of a Global Radical Culture -- 2. The Nahḍa, the Press, and the Construction and dissemination of a Radical Worldview -- 3. Theater and Radical Politics in Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria 1860-1914 -- 4. The Construction of Two Radical networks in Beirut and Alexandria -- 5. Workers, labor Unrest, and the formulation and dissemination of Radical leftist ideas -- Conclusion: Deprovincializing the Eastern Mediterranean -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Khuri-Makdisi Ilham
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Imagined empires [[electronic resource] ] : a history of revolt in Egypt / / Zeinab Abul-Magd
| Imagined empires [[electronic resource] ] : a history of revolt in Egypt / / Zeinab Abul-Magd |
| Autore | Abul-Magd Zeinab <1976-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
| Disciplina | 962/.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Peasants - Political activity - Egypt - History
Working class - Political activity - Egypt - History Government, Resistance to - Egypt - History Revolutions - Egypt - History Imperialism - History Elite (Social sciences) - Egypt - History |
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africa
british empire cairo cholera epidemic colonial intruders country life egypt egyptian historiography egyptian history engaging environmental crises historical history imperialism market economy massive uprisings middle eastern history nobility ottoman empire plague political power and wealth qina province retrospective revolt revolution royalty slavery subaltern discontent subaltern rebellion warfare world history |
| ISBN | 0-520-95653-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Imagined Empires, Real Rebels -- 1. Ottomans, Plague, and Rebellion (1500-1800) -- 2. The French, Plague Encore, and Jihad (1798-1801) -- 3. The Pasha's Settlers, Bulls, and Bandits (1805-1848) -- 4. A "Communist" Revolution (1848-1882) -- 5. Rebellion in the Time of Cholera (1882-1950) -- Epilogue: America-The Last Imagined Empire? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Art Credits -- Index |
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Abul-Magd Zeinab <1976->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
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Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others]
| Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.60956 |
| Collana | Space and Place |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban violence - Middle East - History
Sociology, Urban - Middle East - History City and town life - Middle East - History Community life - Middle East - History Political culture - Middle East - History Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - Middle East - History Social change - Middle East - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
big oil cairo changing cityscape city life cityscapes contemporary politics current politics diplomacy fossil fuel historical history middle eastern history middle eastern politics nation states oil industry ottoman empire political science qajar revolutionaries sociology textbook understanding violence urban violence violence war and insurgencies wartime |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Urban Violence in the Middle East; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I - Managing and Employing Violence; Chapter 1 - Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo; Chapter 2 - A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman Istanbul; Chapter 3 - Gendered Obscenity: Women's Tongues, Men's Phalluses and the State's Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar Egypt; Part II - Symbolic Politics of Violence; Chapter 4 - Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezful
Chapter 5 - Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman JeddahPart III - Communal Violence and its Discontents; Chapter 6 - The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian Argumentations; Chapter 7 - The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895-96; Chapter 8 - Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920; Part IV - Oil Cities: Spatiality and Violence; Chapter 9 - On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil City Chapter 10 - Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation, 1927-58Chapter 11 - Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-56; Afterword - Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788290203321 |
| New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others]
| Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.60956 |
| Collana | Space and Place |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban violence - Middle East - History
Sociology, Urban - Middle East - History City and town life - Middle East - History Community life - Middle East - History Political culture - Middle East - History Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - Middle East - History Social change - Middle East - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
big oil cairo changing cityscape city life cityscapes contemporary politics current politics diplomacy fossil fuel historical history middle eastern history middle eastern politics nation states oil industry ottoman empire political science qajar revolutionaries sociology textbook understanding violence urban violence violence war and insurgencies wartime |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Urban Violence in the Middle East; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I - Managing and Employing Violence; Chapter 1 - Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo; Chapter 2 - A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman Istanbul; Chapter 3 - Gendered Obscenity: Women's Tongues, Men's Phalluses and the State's Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar Egypt; Part II - Symbolic Politics of Violence; Chapter 4 - Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezful
Chapter 5 - Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman JeddahPart III - Communal Violence and its Discontents; Chapter 6 - The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian Argumentations; Chapter 7 - The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895-96; Chapter 8 - Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920; Part IV - Oil Cities: Spatiality and Violence; Chapter 9 - On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil City Chapter 10 - Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation, 1927-58Chapter 11 - Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-56; Afterword - Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828487003321 |
| New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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