Abstract

Introduction Stephanie Cronin Part 1: The Urban Crowd and Popular Protest 1. Street Violence and Social Imagination in Late Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus James Grehan 2. Women and Popular Protest: Women's Demonstrations in Nineteenth Century Iran Vanessa Martin Part 2: Poor People's Politics 3. Popular Protest, the Market and the State in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Egypt John Chalcraft 4. Workless Revolutionaries: The Movement of the Unemployed in Post-Revolutionary Iran Asef Bayat 5. Transforming the City from Below: Shanty-Town Dwellers and the Fight for Electricity in Casablanca Lamia Zaki Part 3: Peasants and Nomads 6. Resisting the New State: The Rural Poor, Land and Modernity in Iran, 1921-1941 Stephanie Cronin Part 4: Marginals and Outcasts 7. Exploring the Margins of Ottoman Society: Disorderly Gypsies Failk Celik 8. Emancipated Female Slaves in Algiers: Marriage, Property and Social Advancement in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Fatiha Loualich Part 5: European Subalterns 9. Making It in Pre-Colonial Tunis: Migration, Work and Poverty in a Mediterranean Port-City, c. 1815-1870 Julia Clancy-Smith 10. Foreign Workers in Egypt 1882-1914: Subalterns or Labour Aristocracy? Antony Gorman Part 6: Subalterns and National Movements 11. From National Heroes to National Villains: Bandits and the Formation of Modern Greece Gerassimos Karabelias 12. Seizing the Initiative, Regaining a Voice: The Al-Aqsa Intifada as a Strategy of the Marginalized Roger Heacock

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