Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906

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Lucia Carminati

Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said

Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906

Lucia Carminati

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English

University of California Press
28 October 2025

Middle Eastern history; African history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Migration, immigration & emigration

Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labor's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's northern harbor, and 1906, when a railway connected it to the rest of Egypt. Through groundbreaking research, Lucia Carminati provides a ground-level perspective on the key processes touching late nineteenth-century Egypt: heightened domestic mobility and immigration, intensified urbanization, changing urban governance, and growing foreign encroachment. By privileging migrants' prosaic lives, Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said shows how unevenness and inequality laid the groundwork for the Suez Canal's making.

By: Lucia Carminati
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780520424715
ISBN 10: 0520424719
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 28 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lucia Carminati is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo.