Format:
Online-Ressource (356 p.)
ISBN:
9780691056838
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 underw
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Description based upon print version of record
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400820900
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East : Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's Urabi Movement
Language:
English
Keywords:
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