Subalterns and social protest : history from below in the Middle East and North Africa / edited by Stephanie Cronin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Street violence and social imagination in late-Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus (c.1500-1800) / James Grehan -- Women and popular protest: women's demonstrations in nineteenth-century Iran / Vanessa Martin -- Popular protest, the market and the state in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Egypt / John Chalcraft -- Workless revolutionaries: the unemployed movement in revolutionary Iran / Asef Bayat -- Transforming the city from below: shantytown dwellers and the fight for electricity in Casablanca / Lamia Zaki -- Resisting the new state: the rural poor, land and modernity in Iran, 1921-1941 / Stephanie Cronin -- Probing the margins: gypsies (Roma) in Ottoman society, c.1450-1600 / Faike Cȩlik -- Emancipated female slaves in Algiers: marriage, property and social advancement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Fatiha Loualich -- "Making it" in pre-colonial Tunis: migration, work, and poverty in a Mediterranean port-city, c.1815-1870 / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Foreign workers in Egypt 1882-1914: subaltern or labour elite? / Anthony Gorman -- From national heroes to national villains: bandits, pirates and the formation of modern Greece / Gerassimos Karabelias -- Seizing the initiative, regaining a voice: the Palestinian al-Aqsa intifada as a struggle of the marginalized / Roger Heacock.