TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aaron Jakes
TI  - Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1882-1919
KW  - British occupation, 1882-1936
KW  - Economic policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "This book reexamines the political economy of foreign rule and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles over the character and status of the British occupation of Egypt after 1882 through its independence in 1922. The book traces a complex history of economism, a term that refers to the reduction of social phenomena to the play of economic forces, and the intermingling of economics and politics in the colonial Egyptian context. It overturns long-standing assumptions of Egypt during the period of British occupation, and deepens our understanding of global capitalism's contradictions and the way that it defines and delimits notions of freedom, with implications that extend to the present day"--
ER  -