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

Juan Ricardo Cole

Published by Princeton University Press 1993

Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East

Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's Urabi Movement

Juan Ricardo Cole

In the series Princeton Studies on the Near East

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820900

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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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Juan R. I. Cole is Associate Professor of Middle East History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Roots of North Indian Shi`ism in Iran and Iraq (California/Oxford)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Tables and Map Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
One. Material and Cultural Foundations of the Old Regime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Two. Economic Change and Social Interests Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Three. Body and Bureaucracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Four. The Long Revolution in Egypt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Five. Political Clubs and the Ideology of Dissent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Six. Guild Organization and Popular Ideology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Seven. Of Crowds and Empires: Euro-Egyptian Conflict Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Eight. Repression and Censorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Nine. Social and Cultural Origins of the Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
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Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335

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