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The Description for this book, Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954, will be forthcoming.
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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 Lockmanās study of how the working class navigated the three major intellectual currents of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesānationalism, religion, and Communismāopened 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 nativeā¦
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