Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840 (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)

ISBN: 0815605064

Author: Gran, Peter

Condition: New

This paperback edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for todays readers. New historical data on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Egypt makes an extremely persuasive argument for the eighteenth-century roots of Egyptian modernity. The similarity, too, of Egyptian history with other Mediterranean countries is much more clearly demonstrated today than whenIslamic Roots of Capitalism first was published.