A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
ISBN: 9780804782661
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Stanford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: National Liberation and Post-Colonialism Urban History; Middle Eastern History;

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.

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