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Colonial Bridgehead
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Government and Society in Alexandria, 1807-1882
Colonial Bridgehead
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Government and Society in Alexandria, 1807-1882
ByMichael J. Reimer
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1977
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 268
eBook ISBN 9780429040122
Subjects Area Studies
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Reimer, M.J. (1977). Colonial Bridgehead: Government and Society in Alexandria, 1807-1882 (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429040122
ABSTRACT
At the end of the eighteenth century, Alexandria was a small unimposing town; less than a century later, the city had become a busy hub of Mediterranean commerce and Egypt’s master link to the international economy. This is the first study to examine the modern transformation of the city, the surges of internal and international migration; the spa
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part One|36 pages
The Geographical and Historical Inheritance
part Part Two|54 pages
Muhammad Ali’s City, 1807–1848
part Part Three|91 pages
Bridgehead of Colonialism, 1848–1882