Franks in Sixth-century Egypt

Thinking through the Monarchy in Sixth-Century Visigothic Spain

The Cotton Boom and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt

The “staples thesis” argues that institutions in a given region could be explained by the nature of production of its prevailing staples, whereby slavery is likely to emerge in “slave-conducive” crops, such as cotton, rice, and sugarcane. This paper evaluates the thesis using a unique natural experiment from nineteenth-century rural Egypt, the cotton boom that occurred because of the American C...

Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt

contrast to their medical activity, however, most barber-surgeons seem to have shrunk from major (and dangerous) surgical operations. Their lists of clients and patients reveal that they were consulted by the middle and upper classes of society, to which they themselves belonged according to stock books of their property. About one-third of the barber-surgeons held official posts, up to that of...

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...

Herbal medicine in Egypt

Traditional medicine has been used since the dawn of history for treating human illness. Herbal medicine constituted the main type of traditional medicine. This type of treatment prevailed during different times of history in different countries, may be until the beginning of the 19th century. By that time a scientific revolution, in nearly all fields started. Much progress was made in the fiel...