All the pasha's men : Mehmed Ali, his army and the making of modern Egypt
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All the pasha's men : Mehmed Ali, his army and the making of modern Egypt
（Cambridge Middle East studies, 8）
Cambridge University Press, 1997
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Bibliography: p. 319-329
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While previous scholarship has 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, locating him in the Ottoman context as an ambitious 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 hereditary rule over the province. In its analysis of nation-building and the construction of state power, the book makes a significant contribution to the larger theoretical debates. It will therefore be essential reading for students in the field, as well as for Ottomanists, military historians and those interested in the development of the modern nation-state.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Between Sultan and vali: Syria and the nature of Mehmed Ali's military expansion
- 2. The birth of an army: conscription and resistance
- 3. From peasants to soldiers: discipline and training
- 4. Beyond the facade of order: the performance of the army
- 5. Behind the lines: daily life in the camps
- 6. The army and the Egyptian nation
- 7. The Egyptian vali, the Ottoman Pashas and the British Lord
- Conclusion.
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