Why read Workers on the Nile?

Book cover of Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954

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1 author picked Workers on the Nile as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Johan Franzen

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I first came across this book as an undergraduate student many years ago. I was drawn to the book because it covered a topic that was not very common at the time, namely the Egyptian working class. Beinin and Lockman’s study of how the working class navigated the three major intellectual currents of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—nationalism, religion, and Communism—opened my eyes to social history as no other book had done. Workers on the Nile analyses how Egypt brutally is drawn into the global capitalist system in the nineteenth century and how this process produced a native…

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