Egypt's occupation : colonial economism and the crises of capitalism / Aaron G.Jakes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jakes, Aaron, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Egypt--History.

Capitalism.

History.

Egypt--Economic conditions--1882-1919.

Egypt.

Economic conditions.

Egypt--History--British occupation, 1882-1936.

Egypt--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 financial expansion and the devastating crises that followed. Aaron Jakes offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation. He traces the complex ramifications and the contested legacy of colonial economism, the animating theory of British imperial rule that held Egyptians to be capable of only a recognition of their own bare economic interests. Even as British officials claimed that "economic development" and the multiplication of new financial institutions would be crucial to the political legitimacy of the occupation, Egypt's early nationalists elaborated their own critical accounts of boom and bust. As Jakes shows, these Egyptian thinkers offered a set of sophisticated and troubling meditations on the deeper contradictions of capitalism and the very meaning of freedom in a capitalist world.

Contents:

Infrastructures of occupation

Egypt's colonial interior

Fields of finance

Gilded speech

The many agents of azmah

Unions of mass mobilization

Punjab on the Nile

The material occupation

Conclusion : economism militarized.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Jakes, Aaron. Egypt's occupation

ISBN:

1503612627

9781503612624

Publisher Number:

99985216865

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.