Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: 600 to 1850
  • Language: en

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: 600 to 1850

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2011
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible.

W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics

W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the twentieth century. In this book, the first intellectual biography of Lewis, Robert Tignor traces Lewis's life from its beginnings on the small island of St. Lucia to Lewis's arrival at Princeton University in the early 1960s. A chronicle of Lewis's unfailing efforts to promote racial justice and decolonization, it provides a history of development economics as seen through the life of one of its most important founders. If there were a record for the number of "firsts" achieved by one man during his lifetime, Lewis would be a contender. He was the first black professor in a British university an...

Egypt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

Egypt

The land and people -- Egypt during the Old Kingdom -- The Middle and New Kingdoms -- Nubians, Greeks, and Romans, circa 1200 BCE-632 CE -- Christian Egypt -- Egypt within Islamic empires, 639-969 -- Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, 969-1517 -- Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798 -- Napoleon Bonaparte, Muhammad Ali, and Ismail : Egypt in the nineteenth century -- The British period, 1882-1952 -- Egypt for the Egyptians, 1952-1981 : Nasser and Sadat -- Mubarak's Egypt -- Conclusion: Egypt through the millennia

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: Beginnings to 1200
  • Language: en

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: Beginnings to 1200

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2011
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
  • Language: en
The harem, slavery and British imperial culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

The harem, slavery and British imperial culture

This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. This book would appeal to those with an interest in British imperial history; Islam; gender, feminism, and women’s studies; slavery and race; the formation of national identities; global processes; Orientalism; and Middle Eastern studies.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

Links the text to the book.

Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914

In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since Egypt was occupied because of its strategic position along the route to India. British presence there, however, inevitably led to modernization during the 32 years of British rule. During the first period the British were preoccupied with the prospect of imminent withdrawal. The second period emphasized programs for such reforms as hydraulic and agricultural modernization, wider education, and urban development. The final period covered the emergence of Egyptian nationalism, whose goals proved incompatible with British rule of Egypt in spite of efforts to deal with nationalism ...