Britain in Egypt - by Jayne Gifford (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 This book will be the first to study that process in the Nile Valley in any great detail and contains previously unpublished primary sources.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[T]his study is substantial, being of chief interest to specialist imperial historians, albeit with references, signposts, and dialectical stimulation also useful for general and postcolonial scholars.<br/>Middle East Journal<br><br>Jayne Gifford has produced an important and timely work. Meticulously researched, well-written and deeply insightful, her book is an important contribution to our understanding of British imperialism overall and in the Middle East in particular: what it was and what it was supposed to achieve. Scholars of Britain's interwar foreign and imperial policy will benefit enormously from this detailed analysis of the place of Egypt in those areas of British strategic thinking and planning, as will contemporary policy makers who wish to learn from the past with regard to dealing with changing social and political dynamics in the region.<br/>Prof. Greg Kennedy FRHistS, Director, Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, Defence Studies Department, King's College London<br><br>Painstakingly researched from the viewpoint of the colonizer, the study explores imperial relations between Britain and Egypt. The author's major argument is that the nationalist Wafd Party posed a greater threat to Britain's dominance in the Nile Valley than communism, Pan-Arabism, or Pan-Islamism ... [T]he text successfully sorts through key decision-makers' personalities, affiliations, and inclinations. Summing Up: Recommended.<br/>CHOICE<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jayne Gifford is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of East Anglia.
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