Imperial Bodies Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt

Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt by Shana Minkin
2019 | ISBN: 1503608921 | English | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule. Thousands of European subjects lived, worked, and died there. And when they died, the machinery of empire had to negotiate for space, resources, and control with the nascent national state. Imperial Bodies shows how the mechanisms of death became a tool for exerting both imperial and national governance.