{"id":329,"date":"2015-06-17T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garneaa1.miniserver.com\/~ithacapres\/?p=329"},"modified":"2016-01-22T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:59:57","slug":"the-last-khedive-of-egypt-memoirs-of-abbas-hilmi-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/17\/the-last-khedive-of-egypt-memoirs-of-abbas-hilmi-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Khedive of Egypt: Memoirs of Abbas Hilmi II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These memoirs &#8211; dictated by Abbas II to his secretary several decades after he had been exiled from Egypt in 1914 &#8211; provide a window on the mechanics of the strained relations between sovereign and the power occupying his country. They reveal a caring man, desirous of reform, with definite progressive ideas. He was disillusioned by sycophantic Egyptian politicians who, fearing British wrath, rarely supported their monarch.<\/p>\n<p>Hardback \u2022 254 mm x 165 mm \u2022 ISBN 9780863722080 \u2022 352 pages \u2022 \u00a335.00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These memoirs &#8211; dictated by Abbas II to his secretary several decades after he had been exiled from Egypt in 1914 &#8211; provide a window on the mechanics of the strained relations between sovereign and the power occupying his country. They reveal a caring man, desirous of reform, with definite progressive ideas. He was disillusioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}