Harvests of Liberation by Ahmad Shokr - 9781503640085

Harvests of LiberationCotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt\nAuthor(s): Ahmad Shokr\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503640085, 978-1503640085\nSynopsis\nIn the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and capital were seen as the main threat, over time large landowners and their imperial allies were targeted as the principal obstacles to the country's industrial progress. The perceived locus of imperial domination shifted from the realm of circulation to the realm of production. Harvests of Liberation situates this transformation in the midcentury dynamics of agrarian capitalism in Egypt.\n\n Ahmad Shokr tells a story of decolonization through the lens of cotton, Egypt's prized export. He follows a range of actorscolonial advisors, nationa.