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Colonialism and revolution in the Middle East : social and cultural origins of Egypt's 'Urabi movement

Author: Juan Ricardo Cole
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993.
Series: Princeton studies on the Near East.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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
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Named Person: Aḥmad ʻUrābī; Aḥmad ʻUrābī; Ahmad Urabi Pascha
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Juan Ricardo Cole
ISBN: 0691056838 9780691056838
OCLC Number: 25788581
Description: xiii, 341 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Material and Cultural Foundations of the Old Regime --
2. Economic Change and Social Interests --
3. Body and Bureaucracy --
4. The Long Revolution in Egypt --
5. Political Clubs and the Ideology of Dissent --
6. Guild Organization and Popular Ideology --
7. Of Crowds and Empires: Euro-Egyptian Conflict --
8. Repression and Censorship --
9. Social and Cultural Origins of the Revolution --
Unpublished Sources --
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Series Title: Princeton studies on the Near East.
Responsibility: Juan R.I. Cole.
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Abstract:

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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