NES 2674 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Post Office

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Near Eastern Studies
• Course: NES 2674
• Professor: Ziad Fahmy

Document Summary

Describe europe"s increasing economic/cultural encroachment on egyptian society. How and to what extent did modernization" change egyptian society: egypt after muhammad ali, abbas i (1848-1854, grandson of muhammad ali, conservative policies/ cautious of westernization, a bit of a recluse/ paranoid. Shutdown many factories and schools: sa"id pasha (1854-1863, muhammad ali"s (4th) son/ french educated, reforms back on track, revenues spent on more infrastructural changes (railroad, telegraph lines, more gov ministries, railroads. Economic effects: cash crops moved more efficiently to ports, cheaper imports flooded rural market. Increase in state centralization (state control/taxation: cultural/ social effects, greater access to the media and western world, foreign newspaper, cairo increases its cultural control, increasing homogenization of rural culture through exposure to. Cairene urban culture: more effective postal system, newspapers / periodicals 20% of postal traffic, khedive ismail (1863-1878, helped by the american civil war and increase in market price of cotton.