The Pasha's peasants : land, society, and economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858 / Kenneth M. Cuno.

This is a revisionist study of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural origins of modern Egypt, dealing with the first phase of the rise of the modern state and the country's incorporation into the world economy. Professor Cuno uses previously underexploited sources - court records, fatwas...

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