All The Pasha’s Men:Mehmed Ali,Hisarmy And The Making Of Modern EgyptWhile scholarship has traditionally viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, firmly locating him within the Ottoman context as an ambitious, if problematic, Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and to build up the army, not as a means of gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottoman empire, but to further his own ambitions for recognized hereditary rule over the province. By focusing on the army and the soldier's daily experiences, the author constructs a detailed picture of attempts at modernization and reform, how they were planned and implemented by various reformers, and how the public at large understood and accommodated them. In this way, the work contributes to the larger methodological and theoretical debates concerning nation-building and the construction of state power in the particular context of early nineteenth-century Egypt. |
Contents
Between Sultan and vali Syria and the nature of Mehmed Alis military expansion | 38 |
The birth of an army conscription and resistance | 76 |
From peasants to soldiers discipline and training | 112 |
Beyond the facade of order the performance of the army | 160 |
Behind the lines daily life in the camps | 199 |
Mehmed Alis army and the Egyptian nation | 239 |
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