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| | Al-Ahram Weekly | Books Supplement | Cromer's Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Cromer, like many others of his class and generation, cut his teeth in India, serving under successive British viceroys in the 1870s and early 1880s. |
 | | From an initial position sympathetic to speedy British evacuation once the Khedive's rule had been re-established, Cromer moved to one considering that Britain had a special role to play in Egyptian affairs and that this should be strengthened despite the protests of the other European powers. |
 | | With his eyes firmly focused on the interests of the rural population, he could not understand the speed and intensity with which increasing agricultural prosperity, combined with the huge growth in foreign investment in Egypt during the decade 1896--1907, helped to create an expanding middle class of bankers, investors, merchants, and would-be entrepreneurs. |
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