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Gifford, Jayne 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7557-7750
(2013)
Extracting the best deal for Britain: The Assassination of Sir Lee Stack in November 1924 and the revision of Britain's Nile Valley Policy.
Canadian Journal of History, 48 (1).
pp. 87-114.
ISSN 0008-4107
Abstract
Egypt has always attracted serious scholarly attention from diplomatic and imperial historians and an important aspect of the Anglo-Egyptian relationship was the Sudan. Egypt perceived the Sudan to be part of the Fertile Crescent — a view largely justified following the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of the Sudan from Mahdist forces and the establishment of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium over the area in 1899. From the British perspective, large-scale investment in irrigation schemes accorded the Sudan a growing prominence within the Empire. More importantly, British concerns centred around the dissemination of Egyptian propaganda into the Sudan that encouraged a politically unified Nile valley. The Sudanese disturbances that occurred between June and August 1924, while a popularly elected nationalist Wafd Government, under the Premiership of Saad Zaghlul, was in power in Cairo — coupled with the November 1924 assassination of Sir Lee Stack, Sirdar and Governor-General of the Sudan — seemed to confirm British fears of Egyptian subversion. This article examines the schism that opened up between the men-on-the-spot and the newly installed Conservative Foreign Secretary, Austen Chamberlain, over how to address the threat posed by Egyptian nationalism and secure Britain’s interests in the region following Stack’s assassination.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Global & Transnational History |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2015 14:36 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2023 10:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/52279 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/cjh.48.1.87 |
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