James S Toth

Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961-1992

"This important book rescues Egypt’s migrant workers, the tarahil, from their usual neglect. It follows them from the fields into the urban labor market to argue that, in spite of the weakness of their position, they played a significant political and economic role in the turbulent years of the Sada...

Economic Analysis Beyond the Local System (Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series)

Co-published with the Society for Economic Anthropology, this work explores the social, political and economic contexts and consequences of economic interaction beyond the local systems. Because the focus of economic analysis is often local, particularly in anthropology, this book specifically aims ...

Why it's Important to Improve The Value of Your Home: Professional Home Improvement Specialists Share Their Secrets

While property values have taken on a roller coaster-like pattern in the past several years, one thing remains certain: Home values will always continue to be relative to the value of other homes in their market. What does this mean for you? Very simply, it means that no matter how much home prices ...

Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual

Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden. But Qutb has too often been treated maliciously or reductively-"the Philosopher of Islamic Terror," as Paul Berman famously put it in the New York Times Magazine. James T...

Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961-1992