Britain in Egypt

Egyptian Nationalism and Imperial Strategy, 1919-1931

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvJayne Gifford

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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 This book will be the first to study that process in the Nile Valley in any great detail and contains previously unpublished primary sources.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-17
Mått154 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780755636686

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IntroductionChapter 1: Between Two Worlds: Britain and Egypt in Africa and the Middle EastChapter 2: Riots and Resistance: Britain and Egypt, 1918 – 1922Chapter 3: Negotiating at home and abroad: the CID, Labour and the Egyptian Nationalists, 1924Chapter 4: The “colonised coloniser”: the Anglo-Egyptian SudanChapter 5: The Assassination of Sir Lee Stack: The British Lion’s Final Roar?Chapter 6: “I wish Austen were less of an old woman and less occupied with his tea parties in Geneva”: The Conservative Government and the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty NegotiationsChapter 7: “The Two ends just didn’t meet”: The Labour Government and Anglo-Egyptian Treaty NegotiationsConclusionBibliography

Painstakingly researched from the viewpoint of the colonizer, the study explores imperial relations between Britain and Egypt. The author's major argument is that the nationalist Wafd Party posed a greater threat to Britain’s dominance in the Nile Valley than communism, Pan-Arabism, or Pan-Islamism ... [T]he text successfully sorts through key decision-makers' personalities, affiliations, and inclinations. Summing Up: Recommended.