Article: State--Society Relations in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Years of Transition, 1848-79.

One of the important ways in which Egypt was brought into the modern age was through the construction of an elaborate civil administration and the establishment of new relations between it and Egyptian society which were both exploitative and protective and which gave rise to what may be called an Egyptian public authority. The crucial period for the development of this new relationship comprises the years between the accession of Abbas I in 1848 and the deposition of Khedive Ismail in 1879. During this time, Egypt's civil bureaucracy emerged as the pre-eminent state institution. Created by Muhammad Ali, the new hierarchical administration underwent rapid growth in ...

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