Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt

Heidi Morrison (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-43277-3 (ISBN)

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This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt.

Heidi Morrison is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA. She is the editor of The Global History of Childhood Reader (2012).

Introduction 1.Reforming Childhood in the Context of Colonialism 2.Nation-Building and the Redefinition of the Child 3.Child-Rearing and Class 4.Girls and the Building of Modern Egypt 5.Constructing National Identity through Autobiographical Memory Conclusion Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.10.2015
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
Zusatzinfo	XII, 176 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-137-43277-2 / 1137432772
ISBN-13	978-1-137-43277-3 / 9781137432773
Zustand	Neuware