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Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said
Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906
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Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labour's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's northern harbour, and 1906,...
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Description
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labour's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's northern harbour, and 1906, when a railway connected it to the rest of Egypt.
Through groundbreaking research, Lucia Carminati provides a ground-level perspective on the key processes affecting late nineteenth-century Egypt: heightened domestic mobility and immigration, intensified urbanisation, changing urban governance, and growing foreign encroachment.
By privileging migrants' prosaic lives, Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said shows how unevenness and inequality laid the groundwork for the Suez Canal's creation.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780520424715
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 October 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 24 b-w figures, 1 map
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 356
About the Author
Lucia Carminati is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo.
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