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List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Between Two Worlds: Britain and Egypt in Africa and the Middle East
Chapter 2: Riots and Resistance: Britain and Egypt, 1918 – 1922
Chapter 3: Negotiating at home and abroad: the CID, Labour and the Egyptian Nationalists, 1924
Chapter 4: The “colonised coloniser”: the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Chapter 5: The Assassination of Sir Lee Stack: The British Lion’s Final Roar?
Chapter 6: “I wish Austen were less of an old woman and less occupied with his tea parties in Geneva”: The Conservative Government and the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty Negotiations
Chapter 7: “The Two ends just didn’t meet”: The Labour Government and Anglo-Egyptian Treaty Negotiations
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author
Jayne Gifford is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of East Anglia.
Summary
Egypt under the British tends to be looked at now through a post-Suez lens – an inevitable disaster and the last puncturing of a doomed empire. But in fact Egypt for many years was the cornerstone of British success across the Middle East and North Africa. This image of empire was shattered after the First World War by the development of nationalism in Egypt – the foundation and growth of the nationalist Wafd party led by Saad Zaghlul and the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. Throughout this period Britain continued to control the Nile Valley – under Field Marshal Allenby and then George Lloyd – through a policy of deliberate containment of nationalism and a slow relinquishing of powers (culminating in the Anglo-Egypt Treaty of 1936). This book will be the first to study that process in the Nile Valley in any great detail and contains previously unpublished primary sources.
Foreword
An analysis on the dissolution of the British Empire's hold over the Nile Valley in the 20th Century
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Jayne Gifford presents an important analysis of how personalities and institutional rivalries shaped the development of both imperialist policies and nationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her in-depth study of British imperial policy and Egyptian nationalism is a valuable contribution to understanding modern Egyptian political history and also provides very useful insights into the operational realities of imperialist-nationalist diplomacy in general.
