Main entry:

Barak, On, author.

Title & Author:

On time : technology and temporality in modern Egypt / On Barak.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013.

Description:

xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Revision of the author's thesis--New York University, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-334) and index.
Introduction: another time? -- En route -- Double standards -- Effendi hauntologies -- Harmonization and its discords -- The urban politics of slowness -- Counterclockwise revolution -- On hold -- Conclusion: countertemporality.

ISBN:

9780520276130 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520276132 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520276147 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520276140 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9780520956568

Subject:

Time Social aspects Egypt.
Time perception Social aspects Egypt.
Technology Social aspects Egypt.
Temps Aspect social Égypte.
Perception du temps Aspect social Égypte.
Social conditions
Technology Social aspects.
Time perception Social aspects.
Time Social aspects.
Entwicklung
Fortschritt
Innovation
Kolonialismus
Sozialer Wandel
Technik
Technische Innovation
Zeitwahrnehmung
Geschichte
Egypt History British occupation, 1882-1936.
Egypt Social conditions 19th century.
Egypt Social conditions 20th century.
Égypte Histoire 1882-1936 (Occupation britannique)
Égypte Conditions sociales 19e siècle.
Égypte Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Egypt.
Ägypten

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300204
Call No.: BIB 246375
Status: Available