Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said (eBook)

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

Lucia Carminati (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
356 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520385511 (ISBN)

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Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labor's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's northern harbor, and 1906, when a railway connected it to the rest of Egypt. Through groundbreaking research, Lucia Carminati provides a ground-level perspective on the key processes touching late nineteenth-century Egypt: heightened domestic mobility and immigration, intensified urbanization, changing urban governance, and growing foreign encroachment. By privileging migrants' prosaic lives, Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said shows how unevenness and inequality laid the groundwork for the Suez Canal's making.

Inhalt

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 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: canal construction workers • Class and Inequality • colonial labor systems • Egyptian working class • everyday colonial life • Foreign Intervention • grassroots urban history • imperial labor dynamics • infrastructure history • labor-driven urbanization • local governance struggles • port city development • regional migration patterns • settlement patterns • transportation expansion
• ISBN-13: 9780520385511 / 9780520385511