Egypt’s industrialization predated Japan’s and Russia’s state-directed growth models

Evidence

In this way one of the earliest, most ambitious development plans outside Europe came to a dramatic end. After being one of the first countries to promote industrialization outside Europe in a manner that “partly prefigured the models of state-induced growth championed by Japan and Czarist Russia during the latter half of the 19th century,” Egypt was reduced to something like a mere colony of the British Empire. Not before another century had passed would Egypt witness any establishments of the size of those founded by Mehmed Ali. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 79

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the familiar Meiji Japan / Czarist Russia late-development narrative; Egypt’s earlier attempt is the revisionist hook. — connects to: Egyptian imperialism in 1840 straddled Ottoman and European models for a future state
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 79

Broader Connections

• Egyptian imperialism in 1840 straddled Ottoman and European models for a future state #expands (0.60)