Week 5: Upending the Strategic Map, I: Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign

Mini Lecture

Core Seminar Readings:

Primary sources:

1-‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Jabartī, Al-Jabartī’s Chronicle of the First Seven Months of the French Occupation of Egypt: Muharram–Rajab 1213, 15 June–December 1798, ed. and translated by S. Moreh (1975). Selection

2- A selection of satirical prints by James Gillray.

Secondary Readings:

Jonathan Parry, Chap. 1 ‘Napoleon, India and the Battle for Egypt,’ in Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022).

Guillemette Crouzet, Chap. 1 ‘Edge of Empire: Britain, the East India Company, and Early Interventions in the Gulf,’ in Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism (McGill-Queen’s University Pres, 2022).

Kathleen Wilson, ‘How Nelson Became a Hero,’ Historian 87 (2005): 6-17.

Further Readings:

Edward Ingram, ‘The Geopolitics of the First British Expedition to Egypt - I: The Cabinet Crisis of September 1800,’ Middle Eastern Studies 30, no. 3 (1994): 435-460.

Edward Ingram, ‘The Geopolitics of the First British Expedition to Egypt - II the Mediterranean Campaign, 1800-1,’ Middle Eastern Studies 30, no. 4 (1994): 699-723.

Edward Ingram, ‘The Geopolitics of the First British Expedition to Egypt - III: The Red Sea Campaign, 1800-1,’ Middle Eastern Studies 31, no. 1 (1995): 146-169.

Edward Ingram, ‘The Geopolitics of the First British Expedition to Egypt - IV: Occupation and Withdrawal, 1801-3,’ Middle Eastern Studies 31, no. 2 (1995): 317-346.

Darrell Dykstra, ‘The French Occupation of Egypt, 1798-1801,’ in M.W. Daly (ed.), The Cambridge History of Egypt: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 113-138.

James Gelvin, Chap. 4 ‘War, Diplomacy, and the New Balance of Power’, in The Modern Middle East: A History (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016).

Nina Burleigh, Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (New York: Harper Collins, 2007).

Juan Cole, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Paul Strathern, Napoleon in Egypt (New York: Bantam Dell, 2009).

Donald M. Reid, Whose Pharaohs?: Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

Irene A. Bierman (ed.), Napoleon in Egypt (Reading: Ithaca Press, 2003).

J.L. Scheidman, ‘The Proposed Invasion of India by Russia and France in1801,’ Journal of Indian History 35, no. 3 (1957): 167-75.

Dror Ze'evi, 'Back to Napoleon? Thoughts on the Beginning of the Modern Era in the Middle East,' Mediterranean Historical Review 19, no.1 (2004): 73-94.