On time [electronic resource] : technology and temporality in modern Egypt / On Barak

Author:: Barak, On.
Published:: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.
Physical Description:: xiii, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Contents:

Introduction: another time? -- En route -- Double standards -- Effendi hauntologies -- Harmonization and its discords -- The urban politics of slowness -- Counterclockwise revolution -- On hold -- Conclusion: countertemporality.

Subject(s):

Time—Social aspects—Egypt
Time perception—Social aspects—Egypt
Technology—Social aspects—Egypt
Egypt—History—British occupation, 1882-1936
Egypt—Social conditions—19th century
Egypt—Social conditions—20th century

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Electronic books

ISBN:

9780520276130 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520276147 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Note:

Revised version of the author's dissertation--New York University, 2009.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-334) and index.

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