The Victorians and Africa
A Reconsideration of the Occupation of Egypt, 1882
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 8979280 |
|---|---|
| Autores | A G Hopkins (University of Birmingham, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 1986 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 363-391 |
| Data de publicação | 1986-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700036719 |
| OpenAlex | W2135583730 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 38 |
| Referências citadas | 39 |
This article offers a reassessment of Britain's decision to occupy Egypt in 1882. Research published since 1961, it is suggested, does not support the view put forward by Robinson and Gallagher in their celebrated book, Africa and the Victorians , that Britain intervened reluctantly to safeguard the Suez Canal in response to disorder in Egypt, or that she was led on by French initiatives. Moreover, the decision to occupy Egypt did not have the effect claimed by Robinson and Gallagher of precipitating the scramble for West and East Africa. It is argued instead that the causes of intervention lay in the metropole rather than on the periphery. British interests in Egypt were both important and expanding, and they were upheld by Conservative and Liberal governments in the period following the khedive's declaration of bankruptcy in 1876. This conclusion makes the Egyptian case less important in understanding the scramble for tropical Africa but more important in understanding late nineteenth-century imperialism. The occupation illustrates how the emergence of a particular configuration of economic and political forces in Britain found expression abroad after 1850; and it does so without invoking narrow or deterministic forms of historical explanation. Finally, it is suggested that the Egyptian case deserves a more prominent place in the study of theories of imperialism than it has received, because most of the ideas which enter modern scholarly discussion of this subject can be traced to the contemporary debate over the highly controversial decision taken by Britain in 1882
Declaration · Intervention (counseling · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law
Prestige, Prudence and Public Opinion in the 1882 British Occupation of Egypt
North Africa
Global English and Political Economy
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
Cultural Clichés and the Cleo-Craze
Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900
Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
Imperium et Libertas? Rethinking the radical critique of imperialism during the nineteenth century∗
Sovereign states and their prey
The Limits of the Shanghai Bridgehead
Gentlemanly capitalism’ and empire
Character and imperialism
Accounting for the British Empire
Birmingham, Westminster and the City of London
Reconstructing British Imperialism
Occupational Hazards
Food for thought
The Iranian Community of the Late Ottoman Empire and the Egyptian “Crisis” through the Persian Looking Glass
The Origins of the South African War (1899–1902)
The South African War (1899–1902)
Arguing About Intervention
The stability and breakdown of empire
International investment and colonial control
An Economic Rationale for the West African Scramble? The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1835-1885
Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion overseas II
Liberal imperialism and the occupation of Egypt in 1882
Reappraisals in British Imperial History
Islamic Roots of Capitalism
European Alliances and Alignments, 1871–1890
Studies in the theory of imperialism
Africa and the Victorians
Democracy After the War
Africa and the Victorians
The Origins of the Anglo‐French Condominium in Egypt, 1875‐1876
Imperialism
The trial of Arabi Pasha
The Bombardment of Alexandria 1882
Bankers and Pashas
East and West of Suez
The Alexandria massacre of 11 June 1882 and the British occupation of Egypt
Interest Rates and Foreign Capital in Egypt Under British Occupation
Clement Hill's memoranda and the British interest in East Africa
The bombardment of Alexandria
Finance, Trade and Politics. British Foreign Policy 1815-1914
Gabriel Hanotaux, The Colonial party and the Fashoda strategy
Empire and Commerce in Africa
French Policy and the Origins of the Scramble for West Africa
The British Occupation of Egypt
The Origins of Private Ownership of Land in Egypt
The ‘Men on the Spot’ and the English Occupation of Egypt in 1882
France and Britain in Africa
A Short History of British Expansion
France and Britain in Africa
Bankers and Pashas
A Short History of British Expansion
Imperialism
Islamic Roots of Capitalism
East and West of Suez
Overseas Investment in the Age of High Imperialism
Bankers in English Society in the Late Nineteenth Century
Finance, Trade, and Politics in British Foreign Policy, 1815-1914
Africa and the Victorians
An Economic History of West Africa
| Obras citantes distintas | 38 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,97 |
| Intervalo de citações | 1987 - 2024 (38) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 37 |