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Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s

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Description for Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s Paperback. Confronting Fascism in Egypt offers an in-depth examination of the response of Egyptian civil society to the global rivalry between liberal democracy and totalitarian fascism as their confrontation accelerated over the course of the 1930s. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJG; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 476.

Confronting Fascism in Egypt offers a new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military support of Axis powers, this work reveals that the shapers of Egyptian public opinion were largely unreceptive to fascism, openly rejecting totalitarian ideas and practices, Nazi racism, and Italy's and Germany's expansionist and imperialist agendas. The majority (although not all) of Egyptian voices supported liberal democracy against the fascist challenge, and most Egyptians sought to improve and reform, rather than to replace and destroy, the existing constitutional and parliamentary system.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804763448
SKU
V9780804763448
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About Israel Gershoni
Israel Gershoni is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. James Jankowski is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Colorado. Gershoni and Jankowski are frequent collaborators, and have coauthored Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East (1997) and Commemorating the Nation (2004), among other books.

Reviews for Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s
"In Confronting Fascism in Egypt, Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski succeed remarkably in overturning the perception of interwar Egypt that has prevailed for decades in the realm of Western academia . . . No study of interwar Egypt—or of interwar Arab public opinion for that matter, given the central importance of Egypt in that regard—can afford to ignore this landmark ... Read more

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