When Capitalists Collide

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Preface

Note on Sources, Citations and Transliterations

1. Capitalists and Politics in Egypt

1. Divided Rule: The Politics of Business-Group Conflict and Collaboration

2. The Origins of the ‘Abbud Group and Its Rivals

2. The Rise and Fall of the Neocolonial Order

3. Shifting Lines of Power: Egyptian Business Groups and the Electrification Schemes of the 1920s and 1930s

4. War within “the War”: Business-Group Conflict in Egypt, 1939–1945

3. Business, the State and Industrialization 1945–1955

5. Power and the Postcolonial State

6. Indigenous Roots of Egypt’s Socialist Transformation: The Revolt against Business Privilege

Conclusion

References

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