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Book The United States  Great Britain  and Egypt  1945 1956

Download or read book The United States Great Britain and Egypt 1945 1956 written by Peter L. Hahn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956: Strategy and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War

Book Egypt s Occupation

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  • Author : Aaron G. Jakes
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2020-08-25
  • ISBN : 1503612627
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Egypt s Occupation written by Aaron G. Jakes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The British in Egypt

Download or read book The British in Egypt written by Peter Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British forces landed in Egypt in 1882 to put down an armed rebellion against the then-ruling Twefik Pasha, Maintain order, and, most importantly, ensure access to the Suez Canal. They stayed for three-quarters of a century. The story of their rule describes administrators and soldiers who governed a people they didn't really understand, but who unwittingly created the basis for a modern country. Lord Cromer, Chinese Gordon, Kitchener, the Mahdi, Farouk, Masser and Anthony Eden are among the men who played vital roles in this period.

Book Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt  1882 1914

Download or read book Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt 1882 1914 written by Robert L. Tignor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book England in Egypt

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  • Author : Alfred Milner Milner (Viscount)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book England in Egypt written by Alfred Milner Milner (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Different Shade of Colonialism

Download or read book A Different Shade of Colonialism written by Eve Troutt Powell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Secret history of the English occupation of Egypt

Download or read book Secret history of the English occupation of Egypt written by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Egypt in England

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  • Author : Chris Elliott
  • Publisher : Historic England Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781848020887
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Egypt in England written by Chris Elliott and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt in England is the first detailed guide to the use of the Egyptian style in architecture and interiors in England. Fully illustrated, this engaging book is an accessible and practical guide for a general audience, but has enough depth to be useful to scholars in a range of subjectareas.

Book The Cambridge History of Egypt

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Egypt written by Carl F. Petry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt.

Book Great Britain in Egypt

Download or read book Great Britain in Egypt written by Herbert Adams Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book England in Egypt

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  • Author : Alfred Milner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book England in Egypt written by Alfred Milner and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Britain in Egypt

Download or read book Britain in Egypt written by Jayne Gifford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt under the British tends to be looked at now through a post-Suez lens – an inevitable disaster and the last puncturing of a doomed empire. But in fact Egypt for many years was the cornerstone of British success across the Middle East and North Africa. This image of empire was shattered after the First World War by the development of nationalism in Egypt – the foundation and growth of the nationalist Wafd party led by Saad Zaghlul and the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. Throughout this period Britain continued to control the Nile Valley – under Field Marshal Allenby and then George Lloyd – through a policy of deliberate containment of nationalism and a slow relinquishing of powers (culminating in the Anglo-Egypt Treaty of 1936). This book will be the first to study that process in the Nile Valley in any great detail and contains previously unpublished primary sources.

Book Lifting the Veil

Download or read book Lifting the Veil written by Anthony Sattin and published by J.M. Dent & Sons. This book was released on 1988 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a hundred years or more, until the last troops embarked at Suez in 1956, Egypt was the hub of Britain's empire, the point at which Western etiquette first encountered Eastern splendour. A unique cast of travellers, traders and troops made their way to and through Egypt. The explorer James Bruce, in 1768, thought Cairo was a great sink of tyranny and oppression, while Florence Nightingale, in 1849, called it the rose of cities and the garden of the desert. Samuel Shepheard opened a hotel here which became one of the world's most famous rendezvous. After the British invasion of 1882, Lord Cromer's unofficial control of the country was called the 'Veiled Protectorate'; but Egyptians were more familiar with the name of Thomas Cook & Son whose agents sent arrivals up the Nile to Luxor and Aswan by sailing boat or express tourist steamer. And Luxor's reputation was further enhanced after 1923 when Howard Carter made his famous discovery of the Tutankhamun tomb. Egypt had become a sophisticated resort which Noël Coward called the last refuge of the International Set. But by then Egyptian nationalism was in the ascendant, and soon the British would be withdrawing from Egypt for good. Using many rare diaries, letters and memoirs, Lifting the Veil traces the development of Western society along the Nile, showing how Egypt brought out a peculiar eccentricity in the imperial British character. Spiced with anecdote, adventure and gossip, Lifting the Veil is an accomplished narrative of social history. Anthony Sattin shows, for the first time in detail, that if India was the jewel in the imperial crown, Egypt was the bright clasp that held it in place. -- Dust jacket flap.

Book Lord Cromer

Download or read book Lord Cromer written by Roger Owen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Suez 1956

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  • Author : William Roger Louis
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780198202417
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Suez 1956 written by William Roger Louis and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1991 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an analysis, based on newly available evidence, of the Suez crisis of 1956, its origins, and its consequences. The contributors are all leading authorities, and some, like Mordechai Bar-On, Robert Bowie and Adam Watson, were active participants in the events of the time.

Book Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom

Download or read book Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom written by Peter Der Manuelian and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pyramid Age represents the first of several highpoints in ancient Egypt’s long history. But critical questions remain about the period, its social structure and economic organization, and the long-term implications of its artistic achievements. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Journal of Egyptian History, The University of British Columbia, Harvard University, and Brill Academic Publishers, Boston, held a conference at Harvard University on April 26, 2012. A distinguished group of Egyptological scholars from around the world gathered to consider new perspectives on the Pyramid Age; the results are presented here.

Book Egypt

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  • Author : James Whidden
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-26
  • ISBN : 1526105977
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Egypt written by James Whidden and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said’s classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said’s analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial and colonial narratives, it uses private papers, letters, memoirs, as well as the official texts, histories and government reports, to reveal both dominant and muted discourses. While imperial sentiment certainly set the standards and sealed the image of a ruling caste culture, the investigation of colonial sentiment reveals a more diverse colony in temperament and lifestyles, often intimately rooted in the Egyptian setting. The method involves providing biographical treatments of a wide range of colonials and the sometimes contradictory responses to specific colonial locations, historical junctures and seminal events, like invasion and war or grand imperial projects including the Alexandria municipality.