Omnia El Shakry Books sku-6106606 UPC 463485021234

The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt is a hardcover by Omnia El Shakry. Listed in Middle Eastern History Books as sku-6106606, UPC 463485021234, it traces the development of anthropology, human geography and demography in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt.

Drawing on texts and cultural artifacts, including ethnographic museums, architectural designs and scholarly articles, it examines how knowledge was produced in colonial and postcolonial settings. El Shakry considers European and Egyptian social science, the roles of race, class and gender in colonial governance and nationalist politics in the inter- and post-war periods, and debates about the racial identity of modern Egyptians.