Imperial Bodies : Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt / Shana Minkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minkin, Shana Elizabeth, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Political aspects--Egypt--Alexandria--History.

Death.

Noncitizens--Egypt--Alexandria--Death--History.

Visitors, Foreign--Egypt--Alexandria--Death--History.

Visitors, Foreign.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Egypt.

Great Britain.

Egypt--Foreign relations--France.

Egypt.

France--Foreign relations--Egypt.

France.

Egypt--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Local Subjects:

Noncitizens--Egypt--Alexandria--Death--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule. Thousands of European subjects lived, worked, and died there. And when they died, the machinery of empire had to negotiate for space, resources, and control with the nascent national state. Imperial Bodies shows how the mechanisms of death became a tool for exerting both imperial and national governance. Shana Minkin investigates how French and British power asserted itself in Egypt through local consular claims of belonging manifested within the mundane caring for dead bodies. European communities corralled imperial bodies through the bureaucracies and rituals of death—from hospitals, funerals, and cemeteries to autopsies and death registrations. As they did so, imperial consulates pushed against the workings of both the Egyptian state and each other, expanding their governments' material and performative power. Ultimately, this book reveals how European imperial powers did not so much claim Alexandria as their own, as they maneuvered, manipulated, and cajoled their empires into Egypt.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliterations, Names, and Archival Documents

Introduction: The Imperial Bodies of Alexandria

1 Foreign Hospitals, Local Institutions

2 Mourning the Dead, Connecting the Living

3 A House for the Dead, a Home for the Living

4 Dying to be French, Dying to be British

Conclusion: The Death of Empire

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Other Format:

Online version: Minkin, Shana Elizabeth. Imperial bodies.

ISBN:

1-5036-1050-0

OCLC:

1178769167