{"product_id":"the-great-social-laboratory-omnia-el-shakry-9780804755672","title":"The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Social Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e charts the development of the human sciences--anthropology, human geography, and demography--in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad range of texts and cultural artifacts, ranging from the ethnographic museum to architectural designs to that pinnacle of social scientific research--\"the article.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOmnia El Shakry explores the interface between European and Egyptian social scientific discourses and interrogates the boundaries of knowledge production in a colonial and post-colonial setting. She examines the complex imperatives of race, class, and gender in the Egyptian colonial context, uncovering the new modes of governance, expertise, and social knowledge that defined a distinctive era of nationalist politics in the inter- and post-war periods. Finally, she examines the discursive field mapped out by colonial and nationalist discourses on the racial identity of the modern Egyptians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Omnia El Shakry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804755671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804755672\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 10\/29\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.05h x 6.44w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 85","brand":"Omnia El Shakry","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059761934591,"sku":"9780804755672","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3f602e02-70d8-4fc5-92ce-424b12bbd850.jpg?v=1685060180","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-social-laboratory-omnia-el-shakry-9780804755672","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}