Explores the social, cultural, political, and economic development of Egypt from ancient times to the present day, describing such topics as Mamluk and Ottoman Rule, the British Occupation, and Arab Nationalism. Author: Goldschmidt, Arthur, Jr. Publisher: Checkmark Books Binding: Paperback Language:..
In the first major scholarly work to look beyond the sensationalized violence of August 1991, Henry Goldschmidt explores the everyday realities of Black-Jewish difference in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, he argues that collective identiti..
The pioneering essays collected in this volume bring critical new perspectives to the interdisciplinary study of racial, national, and religious identities. The authors demonstrate that one cannot study these categories of identity formation in isolation, but must instead examine the ways each inter..