The history of Capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development.
Egypt\'s Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crise.
All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt\'s emergence as a Colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation.
From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country\'s fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills.
The history of Capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development