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edocfu_9958352532302883
Format:
1 online resource (360 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Course Book.
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Electronic reproduction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9781400820900
Series Statement:
Princeton Studies on the Near East
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Tables and Map --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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One. Material and Cultural Foundations of the Old Regime --
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Two. Economic Change and Social Interests --
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Three. Body and Bureaucracy --
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Four. The Long Revolution in Egypt --
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Five. Political Clubs and the Ideology of Dissent --
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Six. Guild Organization and Popular Ideology --
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Seven. Of Crowds and Empires: Euro-Egyptian Conflict --
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Eight. Repression and Censorship --
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Nine. Social and Cultural Origins of the Revolution --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Select Bibliography --
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Index.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781400820900
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820900
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