books.google.co.uk - Previous studies of nineteenth-century Egypt have often been premature in identifying the existence of an independent nation state. In a way which will permanently affect our view of Egyptian history, this book argues that in the mid-nineteenth-century period Egypt was still an Ottoman province, with...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/State_and_Society_in_Mid_Nineteenth_Cent.html?id=uDQJvkYcTeEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareState and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt
