The Role of the Individual in History

Abstract

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. 2

Book review: Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony

“…Moreover, the book characterizes Sadat's infitah as responsible for redirecting capital away from the public sector to the private sector and instituting market-led development. However, as scholars have noted, the state's contribution to industrial capital did not change significantly from the mid-1960s to the late-1970s (Aoude, 1994). In fact, Egypt's strategy of import-substitution industrialization (ISI) persisted well into the 1970s, while public sector employment actually increased during this decade (El-Issawy, 1983;Handoussa, 1989).…”