Colonialism and revolution in the Middle East : social and cultural origins of Egypt's 'Urabi movement / / Juan R.I. Cole

• Autore: Cole Juan Ricardo
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1993
• Edizione: Course Book
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 pages)
• Disciplina: 962/.04
• Soggetto topico: Social classes - Egypt - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Egypt History Tawfīq, 1879-1892
• Soggetto non controllato: Abbasid Caliphate; Activism; Al-Ahram; Al-Mahdi; Algerian War; Ancien Régime; Anti-imperialism; Arabization; Banditry; Before the Revolution; Bourgeoisie; British Empire; Bureaucrat; Byzantine Empire; Caliphate; Capitalism; Censorship; Central Asia; Circassians; Colonialism; Conspiracy theory; Constitutionalist (UK); Corporatism; Counter-revolutionary; Decolonization; Despotism; Economic interventionism; Education in Egypt; Egyptian Government; Egyptian crisis (2011–14); Egyptian law; Egyptians; Elie Kedourie; Emir; English Revolution; Expansionism; Expatriate; Extraterritoriality; Foreign policy of the United States; From Time Immemorial; Ideology; Imperial Ambitions; Imperialism; Indian Rebellion of 1857; Infant industry; Insurgency; Intelligentsia; International relations; Iranian Revolution; Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani; Jingoism; Khedive; Labor aristocracy; Liberalism (book); Liberalism; Loan shark; Mercantilism; Middle East; Mirrors for princes; Nativism (politics); Neocolonialism; New Political Economy (journal); Newspaper; On Revolution; Orientalism; Ottoman Empire; Pan-Islamism; Peasant; Pogrom; Political revolution; Politics; Poll tax; Populism; Radicalism (historical); Reformism; Revolution; Revolutionary movement; Ruhollah Khomeini; Salman Rushdie; Sayyid; Secularization; Social revolution; State within a state; States and Social Revolutions; Subaltern (postcolonialism); Suez Canal Company; Suez Crisis; Tanzimat; Tax collector; Tax; The Imperialism of Free Trade; Tyrant; Upper Egypt; Urban riots; Use tax; Usury; Warfare; Westernization; Young Turk Revolution; Zoroaster
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-334) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Colonialism and revolution in the Middle East
• ISBN: 1-4008-0132-X; 1-282-45776-4; 9786612457760; 1-4008-2090-1; 1-4008-1127-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910172249303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Princeton studies on the Near East.