The power of representation :

Gasper, Michael Ezekiel, 1963-

The power of representation : publics, peasants, and Islam in Egypt / Michael Ezekiel Gasper. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009. - 294p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The formation and the emergence of the peasant question -- People, peasants, and intellectuals -- Five peasant characters in search of bourgeois identity or afandis in gallabiyas -- Scientific agriculture : cultivators, agriculturalists or peasants? -- The new peasant, colonial identity and the modern state.

9780804758888 (cloth : alk. paper)

2008011831


National characteristics, Egyptian.
Peasants--History.--Egypt
Islamic modernism--History.--Egypt


Egypt--Intellectual life.

DT70 / .G37 2009

962/.04