Abstract:During the 1919 revolution, from which Egypt emerged as a nominally independent nation-state after forty years of British occupation, elite nationalists used images of their homes, marriages and domestic relations to demonstrate that they were ready for selfrule. On the eve of the July Revolution of 1952, in which a handful of military officers swept away the institutions that revolutionaries had fought for in 1919 -a constitutional monarchy, a parliament and a liberal economic structure -middle-class Egyptian… Show more
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