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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Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development |
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| Online Access: | https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/1397 |
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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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| ISSN: | 2152-0801 |