Egypt Under the Khedives 1805??"1879
by: F. Robert Hunter

Hardcover. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with gilt stamping, 283 pages. Between 1805 and 1879, Egypt evolved into a modern state with a Western-style military force and a central bureaucracy headed by an elite corps of European-trained officials. Viceroy Muhammad Ali and his successors used this new state apparatus to augment their autocratic power and to profit as intermediaries between Egypt and the capitalist West. This study is invaluable for it's unique and exhaustive research into the structure and foundations of the ruling elite and the process by which modern bureaucracy was built up in Egypt. It also highlights the dangers of rapidly developing a country's material infrastructure using massive outside assistance without adjusting for the destabilizing social changes that are the inevitable result. Clean copy.