{"product_id":"imperial-bodies-shana-minkin-9781503608924","title":"Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 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. \u003ci\u003eImperial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the mechanisms of death became a tool for exerting both imperial and national governance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShana 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shana Minkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503608921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503608924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2020","brand":"Shana Minkin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46372393255167,"sku":"9781503608924","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d72c468-1a76-4102-a7da-dc6d1103fab1.jpg?v=1732725820","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imperial-bodies-shana-minkin-9781503608924","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}