Author: Peter L. HahnPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807819425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956: Strategy and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War
The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956
Author: Peter L. HahnPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807819425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956: Strategy and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War
Egypt's Occupation
Author: Aaron G. JakesPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503612627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crises that followed. Aaron Jakes offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation. He traces the complex ramifications and the contested legacy of colonial economism, the animating theory of British imperial rule that held Egyptians to be capable of only a recognition of their own bare economic interests. Even as British officials claimed that "economic development" and the multiplication of new financial institutions would be crucial to the political legitimacy of the occupation, Egypt's early nationalists elaborated their own critical accounts of boom and bust. As Jakes shows, these Egyptian thinkers offered a set of sophisticated and troubling meditations on the deeper contradictions of capitalism and the very meaning of freedom in a capitalist world.
A Different Shade of Colonialism
Author: Eve Troutt PowellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520233174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Annotation A history of the three-way colonial relationship among Britain, Egypt, and the Sudan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unlike most books on colonialism, this one deals explicitly with race and slavery.
Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914
Author: Robert L. TignorPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140087632X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since Egypt was occupied because of its strategic position along the route to India. British presence there, however, inevitably led to modernization during the 32 years of British rule. During the first period the British were preoccupied with the prospect of imminent withdrawal. The second period emphasized programs for such reforms as hydraulic and agricultural modernization, wider education, and urban development. The final period covered the emergence of Egyptian nationalism, whose goals proved incompatible with British rule of Egypt in spite of efforts to deal with nationalism by repression or conciliation. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Secret history of the English occupation of Egypt
Author: Wilfrid Scawen BluntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Egypt
Author: Carl F. PetryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521068857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Egypt.
Lord Cromer
Author: Roger OwenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199279661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
In the heyday of Empire just before the First World War, Lord Cromer was second only to Lord Curzon in fame and public esteem. In the days when Cairo and Calcutta represented the twin poles of British power in Asia and Africa, Cromer's commanding presence seemed to radiate the essential spiritof imperial rule. In this first modern biography Roger Owen charts the life of the man revered by the British and hated by today's Egyptians, the real ruler of Egypt for nearly a quarter of a century.A member of the famous City banking family of Baring Brothers, Cromer in his youth seemed to be distinguished mainly by lack of academic ability and a taste for the fashionable pursuits of his day. His first military posting, to Corfu, was welcomed by him on account of the excellent shooting to behad in the region. Roger Owen shows how, almost imperceptibly, his commitment to public service grew, due in part at least to his relationship with Ethel Errington who, after long delay, became his first wife. From the island outposts of the old British Empire, to India, the jewel in its crown, and finally to the new Empire in Africa, Cromer represented the might of Britain's Empire. Few imperial administrators had either his range of experience or his long practice of ruling different non-Europeanpeoples, at a time when the whole notion of Empire itself entered more and more into the metropolitan political debate. Roger Owen makes extensive use of Cromer's official correspondence, family papers, memoirs, and the personal letters of his friends and colleagues to explore all aspects of Cromer's life in imperial government. He examines his innovative role in international finance and his energetic re-engagementwith Britain's troubled political life following his formal retirement in 1907. Finally, he assesses the sometimes bitter legacy of imperial rule left by Cromer.
The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis
Author: Diane B. KunzPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807819678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Diane Kunz describes here how the United States employed economic diplomacy to affect relations among states during the Suez Crisis of 1956-57. Using political and financial archival material from the United States and Great Britain, and drawing from pers
Britain, Egypt and the Middle East
Author: John DarwinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349165298
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The British in Egypt
Author: Lanver MakPublisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781788310888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Egypt during the British occupation (1882-1922) was a strategically important site for securing British interests in the region. Most studies of Britons in Egypt during the occupation focus on the lives and activities of law-abiding British military and political elites. Using a variety of primary sources, this book deepens our understanding of the hidden British community beyond these elites - the lower and working classes, and those engaged in crime and misconduct - by bringing to light their demographic profile, socio-occupational diversity, criminal activities and varying responses to the crises represented by World War I and the revolutionary period of 1919-1922. It will be essential reading for historians of British imperialism, Egypt and the Middle East.