Author: Mona Abaza
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9774165713
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Cotton made the fortune of the Fuuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo album to become an attempt to convey how cotton, as the main catalyst and creator of wealth, produced by the beginning of the twentieth century two entirely separate worlds: one privileged and free, the other surviving at a level of bare subsistence, and indentured. The construction of lavish mansions in the Nile Delta countryside and the landowners' adoption of European lifestyles are juxtaposed visually with the former laborers' camp of the permanent workers, which became a village ('izba), and then an urbanized settlement. The story is retold from the perspective of both the landowners and the former workers who were tied to the 'izba. The book includes family photo albums, photographs of political campaigns and of banquets in the countryside, documents and accounting books, modern portraits of the peasants, and pictures of daily life in the village today. This is a story that fuses the personal and emotional with the scholar's detached ethnographic reporting--a truly fascinating, informative, and colorful view of life on both sides of a uniquely Egyptian socio-economic institution, and a vanished world: the cotton estate.
Cotton: American-Egyptian cotton, the biggest and most important industry in Arizona ...
Author: Arizona American-Egyptian Cotton Growers' Association
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Memoir on the Cotton of Egypt
Author: George Robins Gliddon
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Production of American Egyptian Cotton
Author: Carl S. Scofield
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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A Study of Diversity in Egyptian Cotton
Author: Orator Fuller Cook
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Category : Cotton, Egyptian
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Category : Cotton, Egyptian
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Production and Marketing of Egyptian Cotton
Author: American Commission to Investigate and Study Agricultural Credit and Cooperation
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Category : Cotton growing and manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Cotton growing and manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The American-Egyptian Cotton Situation
Author: Frank Lowenstein
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Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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American-Egyptian Cotton Quality and Ginning
Author: Arvid John Johnson
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Category : Pima cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Pima cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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American-Egyptian Cotton Quality and Ginning
Author: United States. Agricultural Marketing Service
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Handling and Marketing of the Arizona-Egyptian Cotton of the Salt River Valley
Author: Joseph Gaillard Martin
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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