The Cotton Plantation Remembered :: an Egyptian Family Story.

Cotton made the fortune of the Fuuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo...

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1. Verfasser: Abaza, Mona
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : I.B. Tauris, 2013.
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Zusammenfassung:Cotton made the fortune of the Fuuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo album to become an attempt to convey how cotton, as the main catalyst and creator of wealth, produced by the beginning of the twentieth century two entirely separate worlds: one privileged and free, the other surviving at a level of bare subsistence, and indentured. The construction of lavish mansio.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (297 pages)
ISBN:9781617975325
161797532X

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