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Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East : Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's Urabi Movement / Juan Ricardo Cole.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies on the Near EastPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1992]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (360 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691056838
  • 9781400820900
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 962/.04
LOC classification:
  • DT107.4.C65 1993
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Map -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Material and Cultural Foundations of the Old Regime -- Two. Economic Change and Social Interests -- Three. Body and Bureaucracy -- Four. The Long Revolution in Egypt -- Five. Political Clubs and the Ideology of Dissent -- Six. Guild Organization and Popular Ideology -- Seven. Of Crowds and Empires: Euro-Egyptian Conflict -- Eight. Repression and Censorship -- Nine. Social and Cultural Origins of the Revolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Map -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Material and Cultural Foundations of the Old Regime -- Two. Economic Change and Social Interests -- Three. Body and Bureaucracy -- Four. The Long Revolution in Egypt -- Five. Political Clubs and the Ideology of Dissent -- Six. Guild Organization and Popular Ideology -- Seven. Of Crowds and Empires: Euro-Egyptian Conflict -- Eight. Repression and Censorship -- Nine. Social and Cultural Origins of the Revolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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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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