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Egypt’s Desert Dreams
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Egypt’s Desert Dreams

384 kr.

384 kr.

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388 kr.

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Tirs., 15 juli - fre., 18 juli


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Produktbeskrivelse

Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pull tens of millions of people away from the increasingly crowded Nile Valley into the desert hinterland. The results, in spite of colossal expenditures and ever-grander government pronouncements, have been meager at best, and today Egypt's desert is littered with stalled schemes, abandoned projects, and forlorn dreams. It also remains stubbornly uninhabited. Egypt's Desert Dreams is the first attempt of its kindto look at Egypt's desert development in its entirety. It recounts the failuresof governmental schemes, analyzes why they have failed, and exposes the main winners of Egypt's desert projects, as well as the underlying narratives and political necessities behind it, even in the post-revolutionary era. It also shows that all is not lost, and that there are alternative paths that Egypt could take.

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Funktioner

Type

Papirbog

Genre

Oplysende

Sprogversion

Engelsk

Bogomslagstype

Indbundet

Antal sider

416 Sider

Anbefalet alder

Voksen

Foreslået køn

Ethvert køn

Udgiver

Cairo University Press

Udgivelsesdato

02/2015

Udgivelsesår

2015

International standard bookingnummer (ISBN)

9789774166686

Egypt’s Desert Dreams

384 kr.

384 kr.

Tidligere laveste pris:

388 kr.

På lager

Tirs., 15 juli - fre., 18 juli


Sikker betaling

14 dages åbent køb


Sælges og leveres af

Adlibris