This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said's classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said's analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial and colonial na...

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1. Verfasser:	Whidden, James (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Manchester Manchester University Press 2017
Schriftenreihe:	Studies in Imperialism
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1882-1956 Geschichte Herrschaft Ägypten Großbritannien Egypt / History / British occupation, 1882-1936
Zusammenfassung:	This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said's classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said's analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial and colonial narratives, it uses private papers, letters, memoirs, as well as the official texts, histories and government reports, to reveal both dominant and muted discourses. While imperial sentiment certainly set the standards and sealed the image of a ruling caste culture, the investigation of colonial sentiment reveals a more diverse colony in temperament and lifestyles, often intimately rooted in the Egyptian setting. The method involves providing biographical treatments of a wide range of colonials and the sometimes contradictory responses to specific colonial locations, historical junctures and seminal events, like invasion and war or grand imperial projects including the Alexandria municipality
Beschreibung:	ix, 230 Seiten
ISBN:	9780719079542 0719079543