Egypt Under the Khedives, 1805-1879
Subtitle: From Household Government to Modern Bureaucracy
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789774245442
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; African history: from c 1900 -; c 1700 to c 1800; History: World; History; History - General History; Egypt; General; History / Egypt; Middle East - General
First sentence: In Tunisia, Egypt, and Ottoman Turkey during the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, new power states emerged containing centralized bureaucracies, European-style armies, and directed by elites made up in part of men educated in the West.