The False Hopes of 1950
The Wafd's Last Hurrah and the Demise of Egypt's Old Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8965324 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Gordon (0000-0002-4348-9411, Skidmore College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193-214 |
| Publication date | 1989-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743800032281 |
| OpenAlex | W2119728684 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 12 |
In January 1950, in the first free election held in nearly eight years, Egyptians went to the polls to return a Wafdist government to power. After having been banished from office for five years, Egypt's majority party assumed office aware that it shouldered a heavy burden of responsibility. Between October 1944, when the King dismissed the war-time government of Mustafa al-Nahhas, and January 1950, eight minority governments governed, or tried to govern, Egypt. Escalating political violence marked a period of increasing disillusion with parliamentary rule that encompassed all sectors of Egyptian society. Indeed, it might be argued that Egypt's ancien régime survived until 1950 only because the minority governments marshaled the coercive powers of the state to control the streets, campuses, and factories, where dissidence was most manifest. At the time, many sensed that if the political establishment failed to achieve the evacuation of British troops from Egyptian soil, contain rampant inflation, and narrow the gap between rich and poor, martial law could not save the liberal order from collapse. What would follow was uncertain, but talk of revolution, fearful or hopeful, filled the air
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The liberal age, 1923–1952
Egypt under the successors of Muhammad ’Ali
The British occupation, 1882–1922
Modern Egyptian culture in the Arab world
The ‘Urabi revolution and the British conquest, 1879–1882
Egypt
The French occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801
Social and economic change in the “long nineteenth century”
Egypt in the seventeenth century
The Egyptian empire, 1805–1885
Egypt in the eighteenth century
The era of Muhammad ’Ali Pasha, 1805–1848
The Cambridge History of Egypt
Culture outside of the state
Coercive Distribution
The "New Deal" in Egypt
The politicisation of sectarianism in Egypt
Alternatives to Nasser
Mudakkirat fī l-siyasah al-misriyyah
The Arab spring
Brothers-in-arms? The Egyptian military, theIkhwanand the revolutions of 1952 and 2011
Lawyers and Politics in the Arab World, 1880-1960
The Society Of The Muslim Brothers
The political economy of income distribution in Egypt
State, Private Enterprise, and Economic Change in Egypt, 1918-1952
Fu'ad Siraj al-Din and the Egyptian Wafd
State, Private Enterprise and Economic Change in Egypt, 1918-1952
February 1942
Egypt
Egypt's Young Rebels
The Return of the Egyptian Wafd, 1978
| Unique citing works | 21 |
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| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2022 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |