Egyptian nationalism in the age of cotton

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https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2025.143.036

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Egypt, cotton, nationalism, Nasserism, great depression

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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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Marion W. Dixon, Point Park University

PhD; Associate Professor, Sociology

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2025-07-08

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Dixon, M. (2025). Egyptian nationalism in the age of cotton. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 14(3), 565–566. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2025.143.036

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Vol. 14 No. 3 (2025): Summer 2025: Open Call Papers on SNAP and Other Topics

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