The Conflict of East and West in Egypt

by John Eliot Bowen

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THE

CONFLICT OF EAST AND WEST

IN

EGYPT

 

BY

JOHN ELIOT BOWEN, Ph.D.

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NEW YORK & LONDON
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press
1887

COPYRIGHT BY
JOHN ELIOT BOWEN
1887

 

Press of
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York

This work is inscribed to the Faculty of the School of Political Science, Columbia College, to whom it was presented, in its original form, as a “dissertation in part fulfillment of the conditions necessary for the attainment of the degree of doctor of philosophy.”

CONTENTS.

 

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CHAPTER		PAGE
I—	From Mehemet Ali to Ismail	1
II—	Ismail's Ambitious Designs	18
III—	The Road to Ruin	33
IV—	Mehemet Tewfik, Khédive	67
V—	Egypt for the Egyptians	91
VI—	Arabi’s Rebellion and the Reforms that Followed	113
VII—	The Sūdan and the Mahdi	135
VIII—	The Mission of Gordon—Operations in the Eastern Sūdan	151
IX—	Gordon at Khartūm and the Government in London	163
X—	Wolseley’s Expedition.—Conclusion	177
Books and Periodicals Consulted		203