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Kenneth M Cuno

Associate Professor of History and African Studies

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Areas of Specialization

Social, economic, and legal history of modern Middle East

Publications

Books

  • Cuno, Kenneth M. The Pasha's Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt 1740-1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Book Contributions

  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Disobedient Wives and Neglectful Husbands: Marital Relations and the First Phase of Family Law Reform in Egypt." Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. 3-18.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Divorce and the Fate of the Family in Modern Egypt." Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia. Ed. Kathryn Yount and Hoda Rashad. Routledge, 2008. 196-216.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Demography, Household Formation, and Marriage in Three Egyptian Villages during the Mid-Nineteenth Century." Sociétés rurales ottomanes / Ottoman Rural Societies. Ed. Mohammad Afifi, Rachida Chih, Brigitte Marino, Nicolas Michel, and Isik Tamdogan. Cairo: IFAO, 2005. 105-117.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt." Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Ed. Beshara Doumani. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 247-270.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "The Reproduction of Elite Households in Eighteenth Century Egypt: Two Examples from al-Mansura." Etudes Sur les Villes du Proche Orient, XVI-XIX Siecle. Hommage a Andre Raymond . Ed. Brigitte Marino. Damascus: IFEAD, 2001. 237-261.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Muhammad Ali and the Decline and Revival Thesis in Modern Egyptian History." Reform or Modernization? Egypt under Muhammad Ali . Ed. Rauf Abbas. Cairo: Supreme Council for Culture, 2000. 93-119.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "A Tale of Two Villages: Family, Property, and Economic Activity in Rural Egypt in the 1840s." Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times. Ed. Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 301-329.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Egypt's Wealthy Peasantry, 1740-1820. A Study of the Region of al-Mansura." Land Tenure and Social Transformation in the Near East. Ed. Tarif Khalidi. Beirut: The American University of Beirut Press, 1984. 303-332.

Edited Books

  • Cuno, Kenneth M., and Manisha Desai. Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009.

Journal Articles

  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "African Slaves in Nineteenth Century Rural Egypt." International Journal of Middle East Studies 41.2 (2009): 186-188.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Contrat salam et transformations agricoles en basse Égypte à l’époque ottomane." Annales, Histoire, Sciences Socials 61.4 (2006): 925-940.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "The U.S. in the Middle East: Oil as a Factor." Bridges: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science 11.1-2 (2004): 69-86.
  • "War? The View from the Arab Middle East." Swords and Ploughshares 14.3 (2002): 14-16.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Ideology and Juridical Discourse in Ottoman Egypt: the Uses of the Concept of Irsad." Islamic Law and Society 6.2 (1999): 136-163.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M., and Michael J. Reimer. "The Census Registers of Nineteenth-Century Egypt: A New Source for Social Historians." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 24.2 (1997): 193-216.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Joint Family Households and Rural Notables in Nineteenth-Century Egypt." International Journal of Middle East Studies 27.4 (1995): 485-502.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Was the Land of Ottoman Syria Miri or Milk? An Examination of Juridical Differences within the Hanafi School." Studia Islamica 81 (1995): 121-152.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Commercial Relations between Town and Village in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Egypt." Annales Islamologiques 24 (1988): 111-135 .
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Legal Sources for the History of Egyptian Women before the Twentieth Century." Islamic and Mediterranean Women's History Network Newsletter 1.2-3 (1988): 6-10.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "The Origins of Private Ownership of Land in Egypt: a Reappraisal." International Journal of Middle East Studies 12 (1980): 245-275.

Newspaper Articles

  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Terror Attacks on America: How do We Respond?." Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. [Champaign-Urbana] 7 Oct. 2001.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "The United States, Israel and the Middle East." The Public i. [Urbana-Champaign] 15 Nov. 2006.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Constructing Muhammad Ali." Ahram Weekly . [Cairo] 15 Nov. 2005.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "U.S. Needs to Work toward Achieving a Long, Durable Peace." Daily Southtown . [Tinley Park, IL] 23 Jul. 2006.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "U.S. pays for Israeli policy it condemns." Chicago Tribune. [Chicago] 17 Apr. 2002.

Magazine Articles

  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Sunni-Shi`i Differences in Iraq." Illinois International Review. 15 May 2006.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Multiple Perspectives on Teaching World history – The Middle East." The Illinois International Review. 15 Jul. 2008.
  • "Understanding Sunni-Shi`i conflict in Iraq." The Illinois International Review. 15 Jan. 2007.

Website Articles

Encyclopedia Entries

  • Cuno, Kenneth M., and Aaron Spevack. "Al-Bajuri, Ibrahim b. Muhammad." The Encyclopaedia of Islam 3 . 3rd ed. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Household: Comparative Practices." Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "United States Policy towards the Middle East." Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2007.
  • Cuno, Kenneth M. "Middle East." World Book Encyclopedia . Chicago: World Book, 2006.