Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism

by Aaron Jakes

Book Overview

The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503612619
• ISBN13: 9781503612617
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"