| Place of Publication | London, England : |
| Publisher's Name | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of Publication | 1968 |
| Extent | xx, 400p. |
| Other Details | list of abbreviations, 2 figures, footnotes, indexed, 3 plates, tables |
| Item Descriptor | The 24 essays here represent papers contributed to a conference on the Modern History of Egypt which was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London in April 1965, in an attempt to take stock of the position of historical research on modern Egypt at this point in time |
| Formatted Content Note | Sections include – Introduction/ P M Holt; Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798) – an account of Arabic historical sources/ P M Holt; ʿAli Mubārak’s Khiṭaṭ as a source for the history of modern Egypt/ Gabriel Baer; Turkish source-materials for Egyptian history/ Stanford J Shaw; Ottoman archival materials on the nineteenth-century Egyptian history/ Ṣinasi Altundaǧ; Documents pertaining to the Egyptian question in the Yildiz collection of the Baṣbakanlik Arṣivi, Istanbul/ Hasan Adali; Some English sources for the study of the modern Egyptian history/ H S Deighton; The Hekekyan papers/ Ahmed Abdel-Rahim Mustafa; The pattern of Egyptian political history from 1517 to 1798/ P M Holt; Landholding and land-tax revenues in Ottoman Egypt/ Stanford J Shaw; Quartiers et movements popularities au Claire au xviième Siècle/ Andrè Raymond; Some aspects of intellectual and social life in eighteenth-century Egypt/ Gamal El-Din El-Shayyal; Social change in Egypt – 1800-1914/ Gabriel Baer; The long-term growth of agriculture production in Egypt; 1821-1962/ Patrick O’Brien; The Jews in nineteenth-century Egypt – some socio-economic aspects/ Jacob M Landau; Law reform in Egypt - 1850-1950/ J N D Anderson; The impact of Egypt on Britain – a study of the opinion/ H S Deighton; Notes sur la hiérarchie sociale en Égypte a I’époque de Muhammed/ ʿAlī Nada Tomiche; The role of the ‘ulama’ in Egypt during the early nineteenth-century/ Afaf Loutfi El-Sayed; Egyptian-Yemeni relations (1819-1840) and their implications for British policy in the Red Sea/ Abdel Hamid El-Batrik; The breakdown of the monopoly system in Egypt after 1840/ Ahmed Abdel-Rahim Mustafa; The Egyptian Nationalist Party – 1892-1919/ Arthur Goldschmidt; The origins of the Liberal Constitutionalist Party in Egypt/ Mahmud Zayid; The genesis of the Egyptian constitution of 1923/ Elie Kedourie; and Some political consequences of the 1952 revolution in Egypt/ P J Vatikiotis |
| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
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| Subject Entry | Egypt - History
Egypt - Social conditions
Egypt - Political conditions
Egypt - Politics and government
Egypt - Economic conditions |
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