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The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class
- Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
Engelsk Hardback
The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class
- Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9781108474481
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1108474489
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Udg. Dato:
20 dec 2018
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
155mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
20 dec 2018
Forfatter(e):
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