Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism. Aaron G. Jakes (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 376. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503612617

Radically revisiting and critically engaging a long tradition of the economic and social history of colonial Egypt, Jakes has written an arresting history of the British occupation of Egypt from 1882 until the proclamation of the country's independence in 1922 through the prism of colonial economism, a discourse prioritizing economic development over political reform in the context of the imperial civilizing mission.