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.

Introduction Marilyn Booth and Anthony Gorman Part I: Institutionalising authority, claiming jurisdiction and space 1. Documenting death: Inquests, governance and belonging in Alexandria Shane Minkin 2. The scales of public utility: agricultural roads and state space in the era of the British occupation Aaron George Jakes 3. Training teachers how to teach: transnational exchange and the introduction of social-scientific pedagogy in 1890s Egypt Hilary Kalmbach 4. Legitimising lay and state authority: challenging the Coptic Church in late 19th-century Egypt Vivian Ibrahim 5. Criminal statistics in the long 1890s Mario Ruiz Part II: Challenging authority in contested spaces 6. Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking Egyptian sovereignty at the western periphery Matthew H. Ellis 7. Regulating sexuality: the colonial-national struggle over prostitution after the British invasion of Egypt Hanan Hammad 8. Internationalist thought, local practice: life and death in the anarchist movement in 1890s Egypt Anthony Gorman 9. Cromer’s assault on ‘Internationalism’: British colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882–1907 Alexander Kazamias Part 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 Hussein Omar 11. My sister Esther: reflections on Judaism, Ottomanism and empire in the works of Farah Antun Orit Bashkin 12. Romances of history: Jirji Zaydan and the rise of the historical novel Paul Starkey 13. Before Qasim Amin: writing histories of gender politics in 1890s Egypt Marilyn Booth Notes on Contributors Bibliography