Contents

pp iii-iv

Tables and Figures

pp v-vi

The Contributors

pp vii-x

Introduction The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance

pp 1-28

I - Institutionalising Authority, Claiming Jurisdiction and Space

pp 29-30

1 - Documenting Death: Inquests, Governance and Belonging in 1890s Alexandria

pp 31-56

2 - The Scales of Public Utility: Agricultural Roads and State Space in the Era of the British Occupation

pp 57-86

3 - Training Teachers how to Teach: Transnational Exchange and the Introduction of Social-Scientific Pedagogy in 1890s Egypt

pp 87-116

4 - Legitimising Lay and State Authority: Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt

pp 117-140

5 - Criminal Statistics in the Long 1890s

pp 141-166

II - Challenging Authority in Contested Spaces

pp 167-168

6 - Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking Egyptian Sovereignty at the Western Periphery

pp 169-194

7 - Regulating Sexuality: The Colonial–National Struggle over Prostitution after the British Invasion of Egypt

pp 195-221

8 - Internationalist Thought, Local Practice: Life and Death in the Anarchist Movement in 1890s Egypt

pp 222-252

9 - Cromer's Assault on ‘Internationalism’: British Colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882–1907

pp 253-284

III - Probing Authority with the Written Word

pp 285-286

10 - ‘And I Saw No Reason to Chronicle My Life’: Tensions of Nationalist Modernity in the Memoirs of Fathallah Pasha Barakat

pp 287-314

11 - My Sister Esther: Reflections on Judaism, Ottomanism and Empire in the Works of Farah Antun

pp 315-341

12 - Romances of History: Jurji Zaydan and the Rise of the Historical Novel

pp 342-364

13 - Before Qasim Amin: Writing Women's History in 1890s Egypt

pp 365-398

Bibliography

pp 399-429

Index

pp 430-438