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The Cotton Plantation Remembered
Mona Abaza
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Description for The Cotton Plantation Remembered
Hardcover. Num Pages: 295 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KNDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 196 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1344.
Cotton made the fortune of the Fuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo album to become an attempt to convey how cotton, as the main catalyst and creator of wealth, produced by the beginning of the twentieth century two entirely separate worlds: one privileged and free, the other surviving at a level of bare subsistence, and indentured. The construction of lavish mansions in the Nile ... Read more
Cotton made the fortune of the Fuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo album to become an attempt to convey how cotton, as the main catalyst and creator of wealth, produced by the beginning of the twentieth century two entirely separate worlds: one privileged and free, the other surviving at a level of bare subsistence, and indentured. The construction of lavish mansions in the Nile ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774165719
SKU
V9789774165719
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About Mona Abaza
Mona Abaza is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt (AUC Press, 2006) and Twentieth-Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei (AUC Press, 2011).
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