![]() ![]() ![]() In the last couple of years, several books in English written for a general readership have documented differing aspects of Bonaparte’s Egyptian expedition: Terence M. General Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 expedition to Egypt has been traditionally characterized by historians as an important threshold in the history of Egypt and the Middle East, signaling the official entry of Egypt, and by proxy the rest of the Middle East, into the “modern” world. This thesis was certainly reflected in Christopher Harold’s classic Bonaparte in Egypt (1962), which until quite recently was the only comprehensive English-language book covering the French expedition to Egypt. Reviewed by Ziad Fahmy (Assistant Professor, Modern Middle East history, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University) Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East. ![]()
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