Thanks to @jadaliyya.bsky.social for featuring my interview about *How Commerce Became Legal* in their New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) page. (@stanfordpress.bsky.social) www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47494

Omar Youssef Cheta, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (New Texts Out Now)

I am interested in capitalism as a historical process and wanted to find out how the brand of capitalism that we live under today came about. Looking back, I think that my interest in capitalism was i...

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Thanks to @jadaliyya.bsky.social for featuring my interview about *How Commerce Became Legal* in their New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) page. (@stanfordpress.bsky.social) www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47494

Omar Youssef Cheta, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (New Texts Out Now)

I am interested in capitalism as a historical process and wanted to find out how the brand of capitalism that we live under today came about. Looking back, I think that my interest in capitalism was i...

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Big news, everyone!! The ASLH has created a new dissertation prize for non-US legal history: the Global Dissertation Prize aslh.net/award/global... Eligible authors for this cycle must have received their doctoral degree in *2025.* Deadline: 1 June 2026. Please spread the word &/or submit your work!

Grateful to @nfyahaya.bsky.social for agreeing to read 'How Commerce Became Legal,' and excited to discuss it with her as part of #ASLH Making Connections: New Works in Legal History on January 21 via Zoom. RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Fadzilah Yahaya@nfyahaya.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'll be in conversation with @omarcheta.bsky.social on his wonderful new book 'How Commerce Became Legal' (Stanford UP) on January 21st over Zoom. RSVP to attend.

Grateful to @nfyahaya.bsky.social for agreeing to read 'How Commerce Became Legal,' and excited to discuss it with her as part of #ASLH Making Connections: New Works in Legal History on January 21 via Zoom. RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Fadzilah Yahaya@nfyahaya.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'll be in conversation with @omarcheta.bsky.social on his wonderful new book 'How Commerce Became Legal' (Stanford UP) on January 21st over Zoom. RSVP to attend.

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws & institutions emerged. How Commerce Became Legal by @omarcheta.bsky.social considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance www.sup.org/books/middle...

The Histories of Capitalism and Race series @soasuni.bsky.social is back with a stellar line-up! Join us for exciting book discussions with @esmat.bsky.social, Catherine Hall, @omarcheta.bsky.social, Nicky Falkof, Tithi Bhattacharya, Françoise Verges, and Hafsa Kanjwal.

*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way. www.sup.org/books/middle... (50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)

*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way. www.sup.org/books/middle... (50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)

Forthcoming, September 2025. www.sup.org/books/middle...

My review of Aaron Jakes's outstanding and ambitious book, "Egypt's Occupation." doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... @aaronjakes.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Aaron G. Jakes. Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism.

New historical scholarship usually aims to fill historiographical gaps and revise widely held assumptions about the past. Aaron G. Jakes’s Egypt’s Occupati

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Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang edited an important book. It features studies by some of the best scholars of Egyptian history, including Kathryn Schwartz, who left our world too soon. Her chapter on al-Waqa’i’ al-Misriyya is a testament to her brilliance. May her scholarship keep her memory alive.