Mitchell dates Egypt’s colonization earlier than the 1882 British occupation

Evidence

For the novelty of Mitchell’s Colonising Egypt lies in its ability to show the peculiarity of the process of introducing “modern” institutions in Egypt, a process that has been taken so much for granted and mistaken so often as humanist, progressive reform, and in showing how these “reforms” were a result of a modern conception of power that was both corporal and disciplinary (in the Foucauldian sense) and which was also metaphysical and representational. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 113

Categorization

• XREF: Foucault’s disciplinary power framework travels from European prisons/schools to colonial Egypt — connects to the reader’s broader work on power and institutions.