The Social Origins of Egyptian Expansionism during the Muhammad 'Ali Period - Hardcover

Lawson, Fred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231076320 ISBN 13: 9780231076326

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Why do countries capture and occupy lands beyond their own borders? Fred Lawson contends that, in the Arab world, expansionist policy has little to do with the temperament of the individual leaders and even less with the activities of the great powers. Instead, he argues that the character and intensity of a country's domestic political conflicts directly determine foreign policies.

About this title

About the Author:

Herman Pleij lectures on Dutch historical literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of the Dutch best-seller Het Gilde van de Blauwe Schuit (The guild of the blue barge), an account of the rituals surrounding the celebration of Carnival in the Middle Ages, and the critically acclaimed book De sneeuwpoppen van 1511 (The snowmen of 1511), a study of the rise of urban culture and middle-class morality in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages. His last book, Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life, was published by Columbia in 2001.Diane Webb, a professional musician and translator, lives in the Netherlands and Italy. She specializes in the translation of historical and art-historical literature.

Review:

"Pleij's book will serve as a useful tool in the recreation of life and experience in medieval and early modern Europe." -- Comitatus

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0231076320
• ISBN 13: 9780231076326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 215