Egypt's Occupation
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country''s fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt''s emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt''s Occupa...
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country''s fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt''s emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt''s Occupa...
