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题名/责任者:

Egypt : British colony, imperial capital / James Whidden.

出版发行项:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

ISBN:

9780719079542

ISBN:

0719079543

载体形态项:

ix, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

丛编说明:

Studies in imperialism

丛编统一题名:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

个人责任者:

Whidden, James, author.

会议名称主题:

British Occupation of Egypt (1882-1936)

论题主题:

Herrschaft

地理名称主题:

Egypt-History-British occupation, 1882-1936.

地理名称主题:

Egypt.

地理名称主题:

A?gypten

地理名称主题:

Grossbritannien

体裁索引词:

History.

中图法分类号:

K411.42

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index.

内容附注:

Introduction -- Capitulations -- Civilising mission -- Projects -- Colonial life -- Imperialists and colonials -- Conclusions.

摘要附注:

"This book is an account of the British experience in Egypt over two centuries, informed by the testimonies of a diverse set of individuals. Providing life stores alongside institutional portraits, it offers multiple perspective on colonial and imperial cultures, from five generations of a British Alexandrian family to a Reuters correspondent with the ear of ambassadors, generals, and pashas. By relating the British colony to discourses on civilising missions, race and nation, law and order, religion, governance, and war, the book identifies the contradictory attitudes of consuls and bishops, artists and soldiers, mothers and daughters, patricians and clients, and long-term and short-term colonials. A biographical treatment of the colony discloses problems of historical memory, identifying divergences based on location, time period, and profession. Official narratives sometimes bore little resemblance to private recollections, indicating that the imperial 'project' was not uniform or even coherent. Nevertheless, certain salient features emerge, among them that the colony in its initial phase was more Levantine than imperial, and that it was recollected as having its 'golden age' between the military occupation of 1882 and the end of the First World War, with the ensuing years being marked by conflicting visions of a threatened colonial future. These themes engage with recent imperial historiography, but are applied to a setting that is often overlooked, in spite of the prominent treatment of Egypt in Edward Said's ground-breaking Orientalism. Egypt was an integral site in the imperial network and this book will be of great interest to area specialists working in political, historical, or cultural studies."--

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