{"product_id":"egypt-ignited","title":"Egypt Ignited: How Fossil Capital Arrived on the Nile","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping history of nineteenth century Egypt reveals how steam, debt, and animal viral disease turned the Nile Valley into an early front in the global war over energy and empire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the 1820s, Egypt became one of the first non-European countries to pursue steam-driven industrialization after Britain. This new account of 19th-century Egypt traces how fossil capital began in the Nile Valley, entangling imperial ambition, forced dependency, debt and colonialism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom European engineers and financiers to Pashas, peasants, and plantation workers, Khairy follows the human and environmental toll of industrial modernity. We encounter boilers exploding, oxen dying in polluted canals, rebels executed for resisting machines they believed were powered by underground demons demanding their children's futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping story of empire, extraction, and resistance, this is a vital history of capitalism’s global spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmr Khairy Ahmed \u003c\/b\u003eis an Egyptian historian and scholar whose research focuses on the social and environmental history of energy, industrialization, and capitalism in the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The habit of burning fossil fuels has diffused to all corners of the world, but it began on one damp island in the north Atlantic. How did it spread to the rest of humankind? In this masterpiece of historical excavation, Amr Khairy gives us the story for Egypt, the great portal to Africa and Asia: it was the empire that drove coal and steam-power into it. Featuring magical creatures and cattle murrains, packed with fascinating detail, a joy to read, Egypt Ignited is an unmissable companion to the present. This was how the Middle East and the planet were set ablaze.\" Andreas Malm, author of \u003cem\u003eOvershoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this wonderful book, Khairy shows how coal, technology, and European finance worked to transform nineteenth-century Egypt, binding the country ever more tightly within an emerging fossil-fuelled world order. A persuasive and original account that forces us to see the 'Capitalocene' as a truly global history.\" Adam Hanieh, author of \u003cem\u003eCrude Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEgypt Ignited \u003c\/em\u003euncovers the unknown story of Egypt’s nineteenth-century drive to industrialise, expanding the global history of fossil capital. The scale of the transformation and its unexpected consequences, both social and ecological, offer wider lessons about the unpredictable path of energy transitions.\" Timothy Mitchell, author of \u003cem\u003eCarbon Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000253210717,"sku":"9781836740568","price":45.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/EgyptIgnitedHowFossilCapitalArrivedontheNile.jpg?v=1792512260","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/egypt-ignited","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}