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The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class - Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,463
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The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class - Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat (Hardcover): Relli...

The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class - Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat (Hardcover)

Relli Shechter

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2018
Authors: Relli Shechter
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-47448-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political parties > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
Books > History > European history > General
LSN: 1-108-47448-9
Barcode: 9781108474481

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