From the flap: "Without steeping oneself in its history, one could not possibly understand anything of Egypt's national being, its essence, so to speak, of which the history of these fifteen years is but one of the potential expressions."
Full title: Egypt: Military Society: The Army Regime, the Left, and Social Change Under Nasser. A landmark study of the Egyptian revolution and the political and social transformations of the Nasser era, examining the uneasy relationship between military rule, revolutionary nationalism, socialism, and the Egyptian Left.
Marxist scholar Anouar Abdel-Malek traces the development of the regime established following the coup of 1952, examining contradictions between its professed revolutionary ambition and the realities of authoritarian government. His analysis considers the military's emergence as a governing class, the changing position of workers and intellectuals, the suppression of independent left-wing political movements, and the ideological tensions inherent in Gamal Abdel Nasser's program of Arab socialism.
A useful historical source for readers interested in modern Egypt, postcolonial nationalism, military government, and twentieth-century Middle Eastern political thought.
Bibliographical Information:
- author: Anouar Abdel-Malek
- translator into English: Charles Lam Markmann
- publisher: Random House, New York
- year: 1968, first America edition
- page count: 458 numbered pages + 44 pages of preliminary matter
- format: Hardcover, black cloth over boards
- subject matter: political history, social criticism, area studies
- ISBN: 9781199904164