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Technology and Culture

Volume 46, Number 4, October 2005

E-ISSN: 1097-3729 Print ISSN: 0040-165X

DOI: 10.1353/tech.2006.0004

Bishop, Elizabeth.
Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (review)
Technology and Culture - Volume 46, Number 4, October 2005, pp. 876-878

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Elizabeth Bishop - Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (review) - Technology and Culture 46:4 Technology and Culture 46.4 (2005) 876-878 Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. By Timothy Mitchell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. 429. $55/$22.95. In this well-written, fast-paced book, Timothy Mitchell examines technology, governance, and violence in modern Egypt. Arab-world specialists and nonspecialists alike will find his observations insightful and engaging. Mitchell argues that Egypt underwent four significant transformations in the twentieth...


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