Author: Michael Denis BerdinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Islamic Reform and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882 (PHD).
Author: Michael Denis BerdineThe Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882
Author: Michael D. BerdinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000143597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This fascinating account highlights the extent the world's major powers will go to as they seek to insure their own interests and agendas, despite the wishes of those whose countries they invade and occupy. The Accidental Tourist profiles Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's involvement in the so-called Arabi Revolt in 1882. It addresses Blunt's tireless efforts on behalf of the Egyptian Nationalists to mediate the differences between Britain and Egypt and prevent a British invasion of Egypt. It highlights what amounted to a government cover-up of the actions of certain governmental officials to precipitate the invasion by falsifying intelligence information and manipulating the press. It also takes to task the scholarly tradition of maligning Blunt and questioning the accuracy of his version of the events of 1882. Blunt was branded a traitor in the House of Commons. This book was written to set the record straight. It is ideal reading for those interested in the field of Middle Eastern, Imperial or Colonial history and will provide readers with a better understanding of the real story of imperialism that went on at the time and is still going on in the Middle East today.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
British Military Operations in Egypt and the Sudan
Author: Harold E. RaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The British Army's campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan from 1882 to 1899 were among the most dramatic and hard-fought in British military history. In 1882, the British sent an expeditionary force to Egypt to quell the Arabi Revolt and secure British control of the Suez Canal, its lifeline to India. Enigmatic British Major General Charles G. Gordon was sent to the Sudan in 1884 to study the possibility of evacuating Egyptian garrisons threatened by Muslim fanatics, the dervishes, in the Sudan. Although the dervishes defeated the British forces on a number of occasions, the British eventually learned to combat the insurrection and ultimately, largely through superior technology and firepower, vanquished the insurgents in 1898.
Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians
Author: The Journal of Military History
Author: American Doctoral Dissertations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
ASA News
Author: African Studies AssociationPublisher: African Studies Association
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Egypt. No. 27 (1884). Correspondence Respecting Mr. Wilfrid Blunt
Author: India Under Ripon
Author: Wilfrid Scawen BluntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description