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The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat - Tapa blanda

Shechter, Relli

 
9781108464703: The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
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ISBN 10: 110846470X ISBN 13: 9781108464703
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Sinopsis

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Egypt experienced swift economic growth resulting from a regional oil boom. Oddly, this economic growth hardly registered in Egyptian public discourse, which continuously claimed that the country was experiencing multiple economic, social, and cultural crises. This book sets out to investigate this discrepancy and to offer a revisionist history of the period. It documents the massive socio-economic mobility in Egypt by analysing relevant statistical data and ethnographic evidence, indicating the changes in the employment structure and the spread of mass consumption. Relli Shechter further examines a wide array of cultural resources, such as Egyptian academic writing, the press, the cinema, and the literature, in which critics lamented 'what went wrong' in Egypt. By doing so, he offers a local version of a wider Middle Eastern and international story: the global formation of middle-class societies whose members strove for respectable lives with only partial success.

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Acerca del autor

Relli Shechter is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He trained as an economic historian and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of Smoking, Culture and Economy in the Middle East: The Egyptian Tobacco Market, 1850–2000 (2006).

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
110846470X
ISBN 13 
9781108464703
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
286
Contacto del fabricante
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