At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transImperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British Imperial rule.
Shana Minkin inve.
Imperial Bodies shows how the mechanisms of Death became a tool for exerting both Imperial and national governance.
And when they died, the machinery of Empire had to negotiate for space, resources, and control with the nascent national state.
Thousands of European subjects lived, worked, and died there.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transImperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British Imperial rule