Ottoman Egypt and the emergence of the modern world : 1500-1800 /
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Language: English
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Cairo ; New York :
The American University In Cairo Press,
2014.
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Call Number: DT99 .H28 2014
Table of Contents:
- 1. Egypt from 1600 to 1800: Between Local and Global
- The Multiple Narratives of Modern World History
- Alternatives to Eurocentric Approaches to Modern World History
- Egypt in the Light of World Transformations, 1500-1800
- Consequences of These Conditions
- Conclusions
- 2. Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Texts: Colloquial in Language, Scholarly in Form
- Language Registers: What Did They Signify?
- The Prehistory of This Change
- The Landmarks and Their Consequences
- Impact on Language around 1600
- Innovations in the Way Colloquial Is Used
- Another Moment of Transformation: 1900
- 3. Eighteenth-century Textile Artisans and Guilds and the World Economy
- Artisans and Guilds 'Outside History'?
- Textiles at the Vanguard of Change
- Penetrating the International Market
- The Diffusion to Four Continents
- Impact of These Conditions on Textile Production
- Participating in Fashions and New Trends in Cloth
- Diffusion of Trends by Merchants and by Artisans
- Internal Adjustments in Guilds
- Conclusions
- 4. Artisans, Spies, and Manufacturers: Eighteenth-century Transfers of Technology from the Ottoman Empire to France
- Transfer of Know-how, Alternatives to Eurocentrism
- Revisionist "Views about the Transfer of Know-how
- Emerging Interest in Crafts
- France and the Ottoman Empire: Textile Technology
- "Egyptians Are Clumsy in Everything They Do"
- Superiority of Ottoman Dyes
- Learning the Skills of Dyeing
- Difficulties (and Solutions) in the Process of Transfer
- State Support and Publications
- Did These Transfers Ultimately Have Any Weight?
- Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: The Loss of Several Monopolies
- Conclusion
- 5. Epilogue
- Dating System of the French Revolution.