José de Souza Larcher and British rule in Egypt in Impressões de Viagem (1901)

Abstract

In 1901, José de Souza Larcher (1821-1913) published the
book Impressões de Viagem. O que eu vi e ouvi atravez do Egypto
e da velha Europa, in two volumes, the result of two visits to Egypt
(in 1894 and 1898), where, among many other historical and
cultural accounts, he also left numerous observations on the British
and Ottoman tutelage of Egypt. In this text we try to explain the
essential features of the vision and opinion of José de Souza
Larcher, an engineer, writer and republican, who is probably less
well known than Eça de Queirós, on the great political-economicmilitary
events of the late 19th century in Egypt.