An/Year: 1999
Auteur/Author: Cole Juan R. I.
Editeur/Editor/: American University in Cairo Press
Langue/Language: United Kingdom
Format: Softcover
Dimension: 23 x 15 cm
Condition: Used - Good

Social and cultural origins of Egypt's Urabi movement. Cairo 1999.

• Condition : good condition, some annotations. Good clean copy.

  
  Juan R. I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centred views of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in September 1882. For a year prior to the British intervention, the Egyptian viceregal government and the country's influential European community were engaged in a struggle against the nationalist supporters of General Ahmad al-`Urabi. Although most Western observers still regard al-Urabi's movement as a 'revolt' of junior military officers with limited support among the Egyptian people, Cole argues that it was a broad social revolution that had barely begun when it was interrupted by the British. While defending this new view, he also offers a theory of revolutions against informal or neo-colonial empires, drawing parallels between the Egypt of 1882, the Boxer Rebellion in China and the Islamic Revolution in modern Iran.