Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said
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A01=Lucia Carminati
Author_Lucia Carminati
canal construction workers
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class and inequality
colonial labor systems
Egyptian working class
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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
Product details
- ISBN 9780520385504
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2023
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Lucia Carminati is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo.
