TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lucia Carminati
TI  - Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Oakland
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Labor
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Port Said
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Equality
KW  - Suez Canal (Egypt)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; A universal meeting point on the Isthmus of Suez -- Like a Beehive: race and gender on the Isthmus of Suez -- The presence of these people could bring evil -- Entertainment in Port Said, a sink of immoral filth -- Conclusion: it would be wonderful if it were not unhappy
N2  - "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labor's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's northern harbor, and 1906, when a railway connected it to the rest of Egypt. Through groundbreaking research, Lucia Carminati explores varied forms of mobility and provides a ground-level perspective on the key processes touching late nineteenth-century Egypt: heightened domestic mobility and immigration, intensified urbanization, changing urban governance, and growing foreign encroachment. By privileging migrants' prosaic lives, Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said shows how unevenness and inequality laid the groundwork for the Suez Canal's making"--
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