Gatekeepers of the Arab past : historians and history writing in twentieth-century Egypt / Yoav Di-Capua.

Gatekeepers of the Arab past : historians and history writing in twentieth-century Egypt /

Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians & traces the uneasy relationship of this tradition with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with the postcolonial state.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Di-Capua, Yoav, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Historiography > Egypt.
Nationalism > Egypt.
Historians > Egypt.
Egypt > Historiography.
Egypt > History > 20th century.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Historicizing Ottoman Egypt : 1890-1906
  • Talking history : 1906-1920
  • The ʻĀbdīn house of records : the 1920s
  • Competing for history : 1930-1952
  • Ghurbāl's school : 1930-1952
  • Partisan historiography : the 1940s and beyond
  • Demonstrating history : the 1950s
  • Controlling history : the 1960s
  • Authoritarian pluralism : 1970-2000.

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