Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Tables and Figures v
4. The Contributors vii
5. Introduction The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance 1
6. I Institutionalising Authority, Claiming Jurisdiction and Space
7. 1 Documenting Death: Inquests, Governance and Belonging in 1890s Alexandria 31
8. 2 The Scales of Public Utility: Agricultural Roads and State Space in the Era of the British Occupation 57
9. 3 Training Teachers How to Teach: Transnational Exchange and the Introduction of Social-Scientific Pedagogy in 1890s Egypt 87
10. 4 Legitimising Lay and State Authority: Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt 117
11. 5 Criminal Statistics in the Long 1890s 141
12. II Challenging Authority in Contested Spaces
13. 6 Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking Egyptian Sovereignty at the Western Periphery 169
14. 7 Regulating Sexuality: The Colonial–National Struggle over Prostitution after the British Invasion of Egypt 195
15. 8 Internationalist Thought, Local Practice: Life and Death in the Anarchist Movement in 1890s Egypt 222
16. 9 Cromer’s Assault on ‘Internationalism’: British Colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882–1907 253
17. III Probing Authority with the Written Word
18. 10 ‘And I Saw No Reason to Chronicle My Life’: Tensions of Nationalist Modernity in the Memoirs of Fathallah Pasha Barakat 287
19. 11 My Sister Esther: Reflections on Judaism, Ottomanism and Empire in the Works of Farah Antun 315
20. 12 Romances of History: Jurji Zaydan and the Rise of the Historical Novel 342
21. 13 Before Qasim Amin: Writing Women’s History in 1890s Egypt 365
22. Bibliography 399
23. Index 430