Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said

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

Lucia Carminati (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

356 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38550-4 (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.

Lucia Carminati is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	26.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	24 b-w figures, 1 map
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38550-0 / 0520385500
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38550-4 / 9780520385504
Zustand	Neuware