Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said

Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said portes grátis

Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said

Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906

Carminati, Lucia

University of California Press

08/2023

356

Dura

Inglês

9780520385504

15 a 20 dias

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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Map of Cited Departure Points and Stepping Stones of Suez Canal Migrants

Introduction
1 * A Universal Meeting Point on the Isthmus of Suez
2 * Like a Beehive: Race and Gender on the Suez Worksites
3 * A Semilawless Borderland: The Presence of These People Could Bring Evil
4 * Entertainment in Port Said, a Sink of Immoral Filth
Conclusion: It Would Be Wonderful If It Were Not Unhappy
Postscript

Notes
Bibliography
Index
colonial labor systems;port city development;Egyptian working class;infrastructure history;everyday colonial life;regional migration patterns;imperial labor dynamics;canal construction workers;grassroots urban history;transportation expansion;class and inequality;settlement patterns;foreign intervention;local governance struggles;labor-driven urbanization