Maadi: The Making and Unmaking of a Cairo Suburb, 1878-1962 9789774169786

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Автор: DeVries Annalise J. K.
Название: Maadi: The Making and Unmaking of a Cairo Suburb, 1878-1962
ISBN: 9789774169786
Издательство: American University in Cairo Press
Классификация:

История Ближнего Востока

Международная экономика

Градостроительная планировка

ISBN-10: 9774169786
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 264
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 01.09.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 152 x 25
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: A fresh perspective on the global economic influences that shaped modern Egypt through the history of an affluent Cairo suburb, Maadi

In the early years of the twentieth century, a group of Egypts real-estate and transportation moguls embarked on the creation of a new residential establishment south of Cairo. The development was to epitomize the latest in community planning, merging attributes of town and country to create an idyllic domestic retreat just a short train ride away from the busy city center. They called the new community Maadi, after the ancient village that had long stood on the eastern bank of the Nile.

Over the fifty years that followed, this new, modern Maadi would be associated with what many believed to be the best of modern Egypt: spacious villas, lush gardens, popular athleticism, and, most of all, profitability. Maadi: The Making and Unmaking of a Cairo Suburb, 1878-1962 explores Maadis foundation and development, identifying how foreign economic privileges were integral to fashioning its idyllic qualities. While Maadi became home to influential Egyptians, including nationalists and royalty, it always remained exclusive--too exclusive to appeal to the growing number of lower-income Egyptians making homes in the capital. Annalise DeVries shows how Maadis history offers a fresh perspective on the global economic influences that shaped modern Egyptian history, as they helped configure not only the countrys politics but also the social and cultural practices of the well-to-do.

Ultimately the means of Maadis appeal also paved the path for its undoing. When foreign tax and legal privileges were abolished, Maadi, too, became untethered from a vision for Egypts future and instead appeared more and more as a figure of the countrys past.

Maadi: The Making and Unmaking of a Cairo Suburb, 1878-1962, DeVries Annalise J. K.