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| #1607487 in Books | 2013-07-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 360 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Addresses excellent points not only about East-West relations but also urban-rural ...|By Lauren|Very extensively researched! Addresses excellent points not only about East-West relations but also urban-rural relations as well. Heavy on theory which makes it a dense read but worth the effort.||
"A book of impeccable scholarship."
In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatua...
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