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Egypt just before political eruption! Turns of the century in Africa's northeastern corner have been critical moments, ushering in overt popular activism in the hope of radical political redirection - as this volume's focus on Egypt's 19th-century fin-de-sicle demonstrates. This period witnessed crisscrossing and conflicting political currents as well as fluctuating economic, geopolitical, social and demographic conditions and cultural processes. Like Egypt's 20th-century fin-de-sicle, much of this ferment was a prelude to the more visible and politically eruptive events of the next decades, when Egypt's popular resistance burst onto the international scene. But its subterranean cast was no less dynamic for that.

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"A much-needed set of studies that challenge prevailing assumptions about Egyptian political, social and intellectual passivity during the Cromer period. Breaks new ground with respect to the country's receptivity to, and participation in, global trends.-- ""Roger Owen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University"""

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Marilyn Booth holds the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Edinburgh.

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