Major Works: History

New and Published Books

1. Children and Empire

   Edited by Cheryl M. Cassidy, Andrea Kaston Tange

   Series: History of Feminism

   Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse The History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women’s and gender studies, women’s history, and women’s writing, as well as those working in allied and related fields....

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   Edited by Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   Routledge Library Editions: Egypt brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from Education in Egypt to Egypt in Transition, from Egyptian Religion to Egypt's Economic Potential, this set...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak (RLE Egypt)

   A Flawed Revolution

   By Anthony McDermott

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   Ever since Nasser overthrew Prince Farouk in 1952, Egypt has held a special, leading position within the Arab world. It is now facing major problems, the most serious of which are the growing strength of the Muslim fundamentalists, continuing population growth and external debt problems. Together,...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Egypt Since the Revolution (RLE Egypt)

   Edited by P.J. Vatikiotis

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   As the leaders of a revolutionary, nationalist regime, the Egyptian Free Officers who came to power following the 1952 Revolution committed themselves to the attainment of goals associated with modernization, namely rapid economic development based on State planning and industrialization and the...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Egypt, 1798-1952 (RLE Egypt)

   Her Advance Towards a Modern Identity

   By J.C.B. Richmond

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   Egypt was the first of the Arab-speaking Muslim countries to come into close contact with modern European states. The experience was not a particularly happy one. It resulted in political and economic subjugation and in the breakdown of her traditional culture and society: but it led also to her...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Ibrahim of Egypt (RLE Egypt)

   By Pierre Crabitès

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   The name and fame of Muhammad Ali, the Founder of Modern Egypt, are well known. His vivid personality has appealed to many writers, who have concentrated the limelight on him. Some of them have allowed Muhammad Ali’s son, Ibrahim, to appear on the stage, but they have assigned him a more or less...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. The Copts in Egyptian Politics (RLE Egypt)

   By B.L. Carter

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   This book explores the political relationship between the Muslim majority and Coptic minority in Egypt between 1918 and 1952. Many Egyptians hoped to see the collaboration of the 1919 revolution spur the creation of both a new collective Egyptian identity and a state without religious bias....

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Sons of Ishmael (RLE Egypt)

   A Study of the Egyptian Bedouin

   By G.W. Murray

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   Merely to inhabit a desert demands much skill, craft, experience and travel. For the numerous nomadic tribes of Africa and the Middle East, living ancestors of the Egyptians, Jews and Arabs, Egypt is their meeting ground. The author, with twenty-five years of accumulated knowledge, here sets out to...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Egypt, Old and New (RLE Egypt)

   A popular account. With many engravings, nearly 50 coloured plates and a map

   By Percy Martin

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

   A work of history, culture, politics, economics, packed with period photographs and period insights....

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Women and Belief, 1852–1928

    Edited by Jessica Cox, Mark Llewellyn, Nadine Muller

    Series: History of Feminism

    Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse Over recent years, research into religious belief during the Victorian period and the early twentieth century has grown in diversity and importance. The centrality of faith-based discourses to women of the period has long been recognized by scholars in...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge