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THE KEMET VAULT COLLECTIONS

Modern & Contemporary Egypt

Egypt from Muhammad Ali to the present: state-building, constitutional change, migration, heritage, modern cities, architecture and cultural life.

23 published studies
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Original stories, museum records & field guides
Actual historical albumen photograph of Port Said entrance to the Suez Canal, not a photograph of the inauguration ceremony; original photograph Hippolyte Arnoux / Knox College via DPLA; Public domain (US), nineteenth-century work
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The Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1869: Egyptian Workers, Engineering and the Birth of a Global Waterway

An evidence-led account of Suez Canal construction: Egyptian corvée workers, 1864 mechanization, Port Said, Ismailia, Ismail's finances and 1869 inauguration, with historical imagery.

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