Book ID: CBB000950225

The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt (2007)

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El Shakry, Omnia S. (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xii + 328 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On anthropology, human geography, and demography in late 19th- and 20th-century Egypt.


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Review Gasper, Michael (2009) Review of "The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 172). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bonmassar, Michele
Maria De Fanis
Stanziani, Alessando
Campbell, Gwyn
Voigt, Isabel
Tilley, Helen
Journals
History and Anthropology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Journal of Asian Studies
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History in Africa
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
Routledge
Pickering & Chatto
Ohio University Press
Liverpool University Press
Concepts
Colonialism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Science and culture
Anthropology
Traditional societies and cultures
Great Britain, colonies
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Africa
Egypt
China
India
Japan
Italy
Institutions
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
British Museum
Royal Society of London
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