>Egypt, like the USA was on the point of industrialising in the 19th century but was prevented from doing so by its British rulers. It seems a little selective

>Egypt, like the USA was on the point of industrialising in the 19th century but was prevented from doing so by its British rulers. It seems a little selective to blame the British when Egypt contemporaneously suffered an invasion by Napoleon and a contested political status under the Ottomans. If the French or Turks had won the game of empires, would they be to blame instead?