| List of Tables and Map | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| 1 | Material and Cultural Foundations of the Old Regime | 23 |
| 2 | Economic Change and Social Interests | 53 |
| 3 | Body and Bureaucracy | 84 |
| 4 | The Long Revolution in Egypt | 110 |
| 5 | Political Clubs and the Ideology of Dissent | 133 |
| 6 | Guild Organization and Popular Ideology | 164 |
| 7 | Of Crowds and Empires: Euro-Egyptian Conflict | 190 |
| 8 | Repression and Censorship | 213 |
| 9 | Social and Cultural Origins of the Revolution | 234 |
| Conclusion | 273 |
| Notes | 291 |
| Select Bibliography | 321 |
| Unpublished Sources | 321 |
| Published Sources | 322 |
| Index | 335 |