Egypt

Author Mona Russell

Publisher ABC-CLIO

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Mona Russell

Publisher

ABC-CLIO

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Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9781598842340

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This handbook provides an overview of the society, culture, geography, history, and politics of contemporary Egypt.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
About the Author and Contributors.
Note on Transliteration.
Acknowledgments.
1: Geography.
2: Introduction.
3: Physical Landscapes.
4: State Formation.
5: Human Landscapes.
6: Geopolitics.
7: Conclusion.
8: History.
9: Chronology.
10: Ancient Egypt.
11: Predynastic and Old Kingdom.
12: First Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom, and Second Intermediate Period.
13: New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period.
14: Late Period: Rise of Foreign Domination.
15: Hellenic, Roman, and Coptic.
16: Ptolemaic and Roman Rule.
17: Coptic Egypt.
18: Medieval Egypt.
19: Islamic Conquest and Umayyad Rule.
20: Abbasid Revolution.
21: The Fatimids and Ayyubids.
22: The Mamluks.
23: Ottoman Egypt.
24: Direct Rule and Mamluk Resurgence.
25: The Beylicate.
26: The French Invasion.
27: Modern Egypt.
28: Age of Muhammad Ali.
29: Ibrahim, Abbas, and Said: The Beginnings of a Dynasty.
30: Ismail the Magnificent.
31: British Occupation: The Veiled Protectorate.
32: World War I, the Protectorate, and the 1919 Revolution.
33: The Liberal Era.
34: Revolution.
35: Sadat and Infitah.
36: The Mubarak Years.
37: Government and Politics.
38: Independence and Egypt’s Liberal Era: 1922–1952.
39: Nostalgia.
40: The Liberal Experiment and Triangular Politics.
41: Hollow Substitutes for Democracy, 1952–1976.
42: The Revolution.
43: The Liberation Rally, National Union, and Arab Socialist Union.
44: The Harsh Reality of Nasserist Authoritarianism and the June War.
45: Sadat: The Early Years, Consolidating Power.
46: Infitah Politics, Mid-1970s to 2000s.
47: Controlled Democracy under Sadat.
48: Mubarak: A Path Clearly Beaten or a Clearly Beaten Path, the First Decade.
49: Elections of the 1990s and the Early 2000s.
50: Dynamism and Stagnation in Recent Politics, 2000 to Present.
51: Egypt’s Court System.
52: Conclusion.
53: Economy.
54: Overview.
55: The Egyptian Economy Today.
56: E
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