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Liberal imperialism and the occupation of Egypt in 1882

Bath Spa University

The US occupation of Iraq and the ongoing war throw up a number of parallels with British imperial history. Outstanding in this regard is the Gladstone government's 1882 invasion of Egypt, ostensibly to oust a despotic military government. In fact, the many decades-long occupation saw the country virtually bankrupted, suppressed a modernising Islamic movement for constitutional democracy and, in the fall-out from this, fostered in the Sudan a more fundamentalist Islamic movement. The move to war was led by a charismatic politician who had, in opposition, indicted the war-mongering of the Tories but now termed himself `a labourer in the cause of peace'.

Key Words: Gladstone • Islamic nationalism • Khedival government • Mahdist revolt • Sudan • Suez Canal • Tewfik • Urabi • Wilfred Scawen Blunt

Race & Class, Vol. 49, No. 3, 54-75 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0306396807085901


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