Egyptian nationalism in the age of cotton
First paragraphs: Our current era of ascending right-wing nationalism is a fitting time for a history of left-wing nationalism. What can an earlier era of left-wing nationalism help us understand about the predicament we face? Ahmad Shokr’s book, Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and...
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Our current era of ascending right-wing nationalism is a fitting time for a history of left-wing nationalism. What can an earlier era of left-wing nationalism help us understand about the predicament we face?
Ahmad Shokr’s book, Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt, is the latest in a long, rich historiography of the role of cotton in modern Egypt. Through a lens of cotton, Shokr offers an account of Nasserism, the ruling form of nationalism in post-independence Egypt, in the 1950s and 1960s. . . .
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| spelling | doaj-art-b42494d83e2e4acabd521cb1d3af2e902025-08-20T03:17:28ZengLyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food SystemsJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development2152-08012025-07-0114310.5304/jafscd.2025.143.036Egyptian nationalism in the age of cottonMarion Dixon0Point Park University First paragraphs: Our current era of ascending right-wing nationalism is a fitting time for a history of left-wing nationalism. What can an earlier era of left-wing nationalism help us understand about the predicament we face? Ahmad Shokr’s book, Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt, is the latest in a long, rich historiography of the role of cotton in modern Egypt. Through a lens of cotton, Shokr offers an account of Nasserism, the ruling form of nationalism in post-independence Egypt, in the 1950s and 1960s. . . . https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/1397EgyptcottonnationalismNasserismgreat depression |
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