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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Tables and Figures -- Introduction The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance -- I INSTITUTIONALISING AUTHORITY, CLAIMING JURISDICTION AND SPACE -- 1 Documenting Death: Inquests, Governance and Belonging in 1890s Alexandria -- 2 The Scales of Public Utility: Agricultural Roads and State Space in the Era of the British Occupation -- 3 Training Teachers How to Teach: Transnational Exchange and the Introduction of Social-Scientific Pedagogy in 1890s Egypt -- 4 Legitimising Lay and State Authority: Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt -- 5 Criminal Statistics in the Long 1890s -- II CHALLENGING AUTHORITY IN CONTESTED SPACES -- 6 Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking Egyptian Sovereignty at the Western Periphery -- 7 Regulating Sexuality: The Colonial-National Struggle over Prostitution after the British Invasion of Egypt -- 8 Internationalist Thought, Local Practice: Life and Death in the Anarchist Movement in 1890s Egypt -- 9 Cromer's Assault on 'Internationalism': British Colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882-1907 -- III PROBING AUTHORITY WITH THE WRITTEN WORD -- 10 'And I Saw No Reason to Chronicle My Life': Tensions of Nationalist Modernity in the Memoirs of Fathallah Pasha Barakat -- 11 My Sister Esther: Reflections on Judaism, Ottomanism and Empire in the Works of Farah Antun -- 12 Romances of History: Jurji Zaydan and the Rise of the Historical Novel -- 13 Before Qasim Amin: Writing Women's History in 1890s Egypt -- Bibliography -- Index.

13 case studies challenge the prevailing view that the 1890s in Egypt was a time of withdrawal and quiescence and, for the first time, gives you a wide ranging and theoretically coherent study of a period that was crucial to the formation of modern Egypt.