Nurturing the Nation
Title | Nurturing the Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Pollard |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2005-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520240235 |
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Hearings
Title | Hearings PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1392 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | |
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Official Stories
Title | Official Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie A. Brand |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2014-09-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0804792321 |
Until the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the resilience of authoritarian regimes seemed a fundamental feature of regional politics. While economic, political, and internal security policies are most often considered in discussions of regime maintenance, Laurie Brand introduces a new factor, that of national narratives. Portrayals of a country's founding, identity, and bases of unity can be a powerful strategy in sustaining a ruling elite. Brand argues that such official stories, which are used to reinforce the right to rule, justify policies, or combat opponents, deserve careful exploration if we are to understand the full range of tools available to respond to crises that threaten a leadership's hold on power. Brand examines more than six decades of political, economic, and military challenges in two of North Africa's largest countries: Egypt and Algeria. Through a careful analysis of various texts—history and religion textbooks, constitutions, national charters, and presidential speeches—Official Stories demonstrates how leaderships have attempted to reconfigure narratives to confront challenges to their power. Brand's account also demonstrates how leaderships may miscalculate, thereby setting in motion opposition forces beyond their control.
Eisenhower 1956
Title | Eisenhower 1956 PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Nichols |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2012-02-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439139342 |
Draws on hundreds of newly declassified documents to present an account of the Suez crisis that reveals the considerable danger it posed as well as the influence of Eisenhower's health problems and the 1956 election campaign.
Egypt as a Woman
Title | Egypt as a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Beth Baron |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520251547 |
“Can anything new be said about modern Egyptian nationalism? Beth Baron's book Egypt as a Woman, one of the best modern Egyptian history books to appear in several years, leaves no doubt that it can. With evenhandedness and generosity, Baron shows how vital women were to mobilizing opposition to British authority and modernizing Egypt.”—Robert L. Tignor, author of Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire “A wonderful contribution to understanding Egyptian national and gender politics between the two world wars. Baron explores the paradox of women’s exclusion from political rights at the very moment when visual and metaphorical representations of Egypt as a woman were becoming widespread and real women activists—both secularist and Islamist—were participating more actively in public life than ever before.”—Donald Malcolm Reid, author of Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I
The Department of State Bulletin
Title | The Department of State Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1072 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt
Title | The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Eyre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199673896 |
This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the administrative changes imposed by the Graeco-Roman period. It explores how the writing of documents was embedded in the interactions between customary social practices and the penetration of outside hierarchies into local government.