The Power of Representation:

Michael Ezekiel Gasper

The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2009 - 294 p., 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The formation and the emergence of the peasant question -- People, peasants, and intellectuals -- Five peasant characters in search of bourgeois identity or afandis in gallabiyas -- Scientific agriculture : cultivators, agriculturalists or peasants? -- The new peasant, colonial identity and the modern state.

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National characteristics--Egypt
Peasants--History--Egypt
Islamic modernism--History--Egypt


Egypt--Intellectual life