{"product_id":"liberalism-without-democracy-nationhood-and-citizenship-in-egypt-19221936-9780822338383","title":"Liberalism without Democracy  Nationhood and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis analysis of the failure of efforts to achieve liberal reform in Egypt following its independence from Great Britain in 1922 has implications for modern-day nation-building efforts in the Mideast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLiberalism without Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e raises fundamentally important issues and is incredibly timely and relevant to current debates in the Middle East about democratization and foreign intervention.”—Diane Singerman, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Abdeslam Maghraoui’s book is among the more cogent recent explanations of the reasons liberalism failed in the Middle East. Through its examination of the role of language and culture in Egypt, \u003ci\u003eLiberalism without Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on a central weakness of liberalism—its commitment to individual liberty and colonial conquest.”—Edmund Burke III, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Colonial Turn: Orientalism, History, and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a valuable book. [This is not] simply a thorough, detailed study of Egyptian politics. . . . [It] is much more than that. It is relevant to the present American misadventure in Iraq and to Western imperialism more generally. . . . Perhaps no one else has thoroughly documented, as well as Maghraoui, the extent to which some “liberal” writers tried to mimic the West. The author has provided much compelling evidence to support the ideas of those scholars who decry the confusion between modernization and Westernization.” -- Glenn Perry * Middle East Studies Digest *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Colonialism as a Literary and Historical Phenomenon 14\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Colonial Encounter in Egypt 37\u003cbr\u003e 3. Defining the Boundaries of the Political Community 64\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Cultural Preconditions of Citizenship 87\u003cbr\u003e 5. Egypt’s Liberal Experiment in Comparative Perspective 118\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 141\u003cbr\u003e Notes 149\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 171\u003cbr\u003e Index 181","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406042931543,"sku":"9780822338383","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liberalism-without-democracy-nationhood-and-citizenship-in-egypt-19221936-9780822338383","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}