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1 online resource (356 pages) |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents |
Summary |
In this book Juan R.I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centered conceptions of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in September 1882. For a year before the British intervened, Egypt's viceregal government and the country's influential European community had been locked in a struggle with the nationalist supporters of General Ahmad al-Urabi. Although most Western observers still see the Urabi movement as a "revolt" of junior military officers with only limited support among the Egyptian people, Cole maintains that it was a broadly based social revolution hardly underway when it was cut off by the British. While arguing this fresh point of view, he also proposes a theory of revolutions against informal or neocolonial empires, drawing parallels between Egypt in 1882, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and the Islamic Revolution in modern Iran. In a thorough examination of the changing Egyptian political culture from 1858 through the 'Urabi episode, Cole shows how various social strata - urban guilds, the intelligentsia, and village notables - became "revolutionary." Addressing issues raised by such scholars as Barrington Moore and Theda Skocpol, his book combines four complementary approaches : social structure and its socioeconomic context, organization, ideology, and the ways in which unexpected conjunctures of events help drive a revolution |
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Print version record |
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ʻUrābī, Aḥmad, 1840 or 1841-1911.
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SUBJECT |
ʻUrābī, Aḥmad, 1840 or 1841-1911
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ʻUrābī, Aḥmad, 1840 or 1841-1911 fast |
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Social classes -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century
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Social classes
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Egypt -- History -- Tawfīq, 1879-1892.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041303
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Egypt
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781400820900 |
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1400820901 |
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