All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of

All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt

While scholarship has traditionally viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, firmly locating him within the Ottoman context as an ambitious, if problematic, Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and to build up the army, not as a means of gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottoman empire, but to further his own ambitions for recognized hereditary rule over the province. By focusing on the army and the soldier's daily experiences, the author constructs a detailed picture of attempts at modernization and reform, how they were planned and implemented by various reformers, and how the public at large understood and accommodated them. In this way, the work contributes to the larger methodological and theoretical debates concerning nation-building and the construction of state power in the particular context of early nineteenth-century Egypt.

Country	USA
Author	Khaled Fahmy
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: American University in Cairo Press
EAN	9789774246968
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	9774246969
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Label	The American University in Cairo Press
Manufacturer	The American University in Cairo Press
MPN	10 b&w illustrations
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	352
PartNumber	10 b&w illustrations
PublicationDate	2010-10-15
Publisher	The American University in Cairo Press
ReleaseDate	2002-03-01
Studio	The American University in Cairo Press

All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt