The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War

by Kyle J. Anderson and Kyle J. Anderson

During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC) and put them to work handling military logistics in Europe and the Middle East. British authorities reneged on their promise not to draw Egyptians into the war, and, as Kyle Anderson shows, the ELC was seen by many in Egypt as a form of slavery. The Egyptian Labor Corps tells the forgotten...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477324542
• ISBN13: 9781477324547
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"