CONTENTS PACE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION v AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION - - - - ix CHAPTER I The Birth of Modern Egypt: Napoleon—Mehemet All—Palmerston - - - 23 CHAPTER II Bankrupts and Brokers: Abbas—Said—Ismail - 62 CHAPTER III The British Occupation: Tewfik—Arabi—Gladstone 96 CHAPTER IV Egypt and the Sudan: The Mahdi—Gordon - 131 CHAPTER V Financial Reconstruction: Cromer - - - 146 CHAPTER VI Nationalist Renascence: Abbas—Gorst—Kitchener - 177 CHAPTER VII The War: Hussein—Rushdi - - - 200 * vii