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Egypt and the English, Showing British Public Opinion in Egypt Upon the Egyptian Question
Egypt and the English Showing British Public Opinion in Egypt Upon the Egyptian Question Author:Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen Subtitle: With Chapters on Success of the Sudan and the Delights of Travel in Egypt and the Sudan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: Hurst and Blackett, limited Subjects: British Egypt English Sudan History / Africa / East History / Ancient / Egypt History / Middle East ... more »/ Egypt Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Middle East Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTION. I. I Have pointed out in ray Preface that this book aims at giving a faithful reflection of British public opinion in Egypt. It was written in the hope that a knowledge of what the British in Egypt think might awaken in the British at home, who love their country, an anxiety about Egypt which will react upon our rulers. It is indisputable that we have a glorious heritage in Egypt, and that we stand in danger of losing it, because we have Governments, of both parties, who can be squeezed into giving up anything, and because sedition is busy in Egypt. In the following pages will be found a mass of instances and anecdotes which show the parlous state of the country. If you go into the Club in Cairo, or the office of the Egyptian Gazette in Alexandria; if you listen to a mess-room conversation, or to what the hard-working British medical inspector or irrigation-engineer is telling an English traveller who is questioning him about the country -- you will hear what I have set down in the political portion of this book. And you will hear added to it alarming accounts of the epidemic of rioting in Cairo streets; attacks of bandits on trains in populous parts of the Nile valley ; vain prosecutions of seditious journals whose violence could no longer be safely overlooked ; open incit...« less