A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
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Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. The logic behind this latter view has now been largely lost. Offering a revised history, Nancy Reynolds looks to the decades leading up to the fire to show that the lines between foreign and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0804781265
ISBN13:9780804781268
Release Date:July 2012
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:376 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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