 | A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 20th century; Cairo (Egypt) -- Commerce -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism -- Economic aspects -- Egypt; Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1919–1952; Egypt -- History -- Revolution 1952; This book offers a reinterpretation of an important popular uprising in Cairo in 1952 by looking at the patterns of commerce and urban development over the previous four decades. Nancy Y. Reynolds is Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. |
