Sickness, scoundrels and saints: Tanta in the world and the world in Tanta 1856-1907.

My dissertation is an investigation of the Egyptian Delta city of Tanta during its period of rapid urbanization, modernization and development (1856-1907). It determines that in an effort to modernize Tanta-along with Cairo and Alexandria-the Cairo-based state authorities exponentially increased Tan...

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