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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Cole, Juan Ricardo,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1992]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

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.

Table of 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