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Pleasure, Leisure, or Vice? Public Morality in Imperial Cairo, 1882--1949.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pleasure, Leisure, or Vice? Public Morality in Imperial Cairo, 1882--1949./
Author:	Fonder, Nathan Lambert.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2013,
Description:	365 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-10A(E).
Subject:	Middle Eastern history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3566877
ISBN:	9781303184246

Pleasure, Leisure, or Vice? Public Morality in Imperial Cairo, 1882--1949.
Fonder, Nathan Lambert.

Pleasure, Leisure, or Vice? Public Morality in Imperial Cairo, 1882--1949. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2013 - 365 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2013.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

I investigate the social history of Egypt under British imperial occupation through the lens of morality in order to understand the contestation of cultural change and authority under empire. Points of cultural cleavage between European and local inhabitants in British-occupied Cairo included two customs, gambling and the consumption of intoxicants, which elicited sustained and dynamic reactions from observers of Egyptian society on the local and international level. I show that the presence of alcohol and gambling in public spaces in Cairo contributed directly to the politicization and selective criminalization of public morality. However, the meanings attributed to social practices relating to leisure were continually under negotiation and challenge as state authorities, British liberals, Egyptian reformers and religious leaders, foreign missionaries, and representatives of international temperance movements vied to impose their visions of morality upon Egyptian society.

ISBN: 9781303184246Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168386
Middle Eastern history.

Pleasure, Leisure, or Vice? Public Morality in Imperial Cairo, 1882--1949.
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520 $a My work speaks to the questions of how public morality and popular culture are socially defined, and how these contested definitions have shaped, and been shaped by, the colonial encounter in the Middle East. I demonstrate that the struggle over who could claim ultimate cultural or religious authority on a given moral issue was not limited to the realm of ideas and ethics, but had practical and profound ramifications for state politics. In moving my analysis from the market of ideas to the physical market for intoxicating goods and wagering services, I argue that power and authority in Egypt, as in other states under imperial occupation, retained a fluidity that transcended the expression of force or threats of violence. The resiliency of these social issues testifies to the weaknesses of both the British imperial and the Egyptian monarchial states, which were never able to enforce their claims to moral and political authority and effectively exert power over the urban population. I detail the local Egyptian articulation of global social reform efforts and anti-vice projects during the colonial period.
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