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On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
On Barak
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Description for On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
Paperback. Presents a history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East. This title argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness. These countertempos, predicated on uneasiness over "dehumanizing" European standards of efficiency, sprang from and contributed to non-linear modes of arranging time. Barak shows how these countertempos formed and developed ... Read more
In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness. These countertempos, predicated on uneasiness over "dehumanizing" European standards of efficiency, sprang from and contributed to non-linear modes of arranging time. Barak shows how these countertempos formed and developed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
364
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520276147
SKU
V9780520276147
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About On Barak
On Barak is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Names Without Faces: From Polemics to Flirtation in Islamic Chat-room Nick-naming (Uppsala University Press, 2006).
Reviews for On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
"A book of impeccable scholarship."
Robert L. Tignor American Historical Review "On Time provides a fascinating read, rich with vivid historical accounts that make the author's arguments all the more striking and memorable."
Yulia Frumer Technology and Culture
Robert L. Tignor American Historical Review "On Time provides a fascinating read, rich with vivid historical accounts that make the author's arguments all the more striking and memorable."
Yulia Frumer Technology and Culture