Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's Urabi Movement

by Juan R.I. Cole

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691056838
• ISBN13: 9780691056838
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"