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British Defense of Egyptby Steve Morewood
Frank Cass 2002; US$ 188.00This book offers a comprehensive and challenging analysis of the British defence of Egypt, primarily against fascist Italy, in the critical lead-up period to the Second World War. more...
Britain, Nasser and the Balance of Power in the Middle East,by Robert McNamara
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 190.00This study is a multi-archival documentary history of British policy towards Nasser's Egypt under the Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Home and Wilson governments. more...
British Pro-Consuls in Egypt, 1914-1929by C. W. R. Long
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 44.95The story of four proconsuls (McMahon, Wingate, Allenby and Lloyd), their principal opponent, Sa'ad Zaghul, and the great events of the time - the rise of the WAFD party, the uprising of 1919, the murder of Sir Lee Stack and the Allenby ultimatum. more...
Pan-Arabism before Nasserby Michael Doran
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 50.00This book aims to alter profoundly the accepted version of the history of post-World War II Egyptian foreign policy. To this end, Doran convincingly demonstrates the absence of any true pan-Arab front from the very beginning of the Arab League. Reconsidering Cairo's policy decisions during the critical years from 1944 to 1948, he proves that Egyptian national interests were always placed before the united Arab front against Israel. Even while participating in the 1948 war with Israel, Egypt regarded Zionism and the Palestine Question as less important than achieving independence from Britain and thwarting the expansionist aims of Iraq and Jordan. Ultimately, this study is a bold rethinking of twentieth-century Middle Eastern politics and history,... more...
The Suez-sinai Crisisby Moshe Shemesh; Selwyn Illan Troen
Taylor & Francis 1990; US$ 174.00A comprehensive and balanced volume which juxtaposes the views of statesmen with those of military leaders that fought the war. more...
Nasser at Warby Laura James
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2006; US$ 90.00Analyzes a critical turning point for the modern Middle East. From his 1956 Suez triumph to the 1967 defeat, President Nasser of Egypt dominated the Arab revolution. Drawing on Arabic material, this history casts a fresh light on Nasser's era and legacy of conflict. more...
Global Security Watch--Egypt: A Reference Handbookby Denis J. Sullivan; Kimberly Jones
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 55.00Despite the appearance of political and military stability, Egypt may be standing at the edge of a precipice as the state remains grounded in rigid authoritarianism while the population, including a struggling civil society, readies itself to make the leap to democratization. This characterization has far-reaching implications for relations between citizens and the government, as well as Egypt's foreign affairs posture, particularly in the Middle East. State repression of civil, political, and religious actors, the ineffectual provision of social services, and two religious divides, between Coptic Christianity and Islam on the one hand, and secular and conservative Islamic traditions on the other, make for an incendiary domestic environment.... more...
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force in World War Iby Michael J. Mortlock
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 38.00This military history follows the 5th Battalion of the Suffolk regiment from England to Syria and the end of World War I. Among the previously untapped primary source materials used are the author's father's correspondence and photographs from his 1913-1919 service with the 5th Suffolk in England, Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and Syria. It follows chronologically the frustrating failures, and the final victory, of the campaigns in North Africa and the Middle East and refutes the widely held misconception that cavalry played no major role in the conflict. more...
The Struggle for Egyptby Steven A. Cook
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 21.95The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a lynchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world and has turned its gaze to Egypt, however. A half century ago, Egypt under Nasser became the putative leader of the Arab world and a beacon for all developing nations. Yet in the decades prior to the 2011 revolution, it was ruled over by a sclerotic regime plagued by nepotism and corruption. During that time, its economy declined into near shambles, a severely overpopulated Cairo fell into disrepair, and it produced scores of violent Islamic... more...
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