These pages challenge a historical heresy. They refuse to join in the chorus led by Milner Colvin and Cromer and to agree that Ismail Pasha the first Khedive of Egypt was a spendthrift a voluptuary and a thief. Not even great names can stand up against facts and figures culled from official sources. |Revival: Ismail: The Maligned Khedive (1933) | Middle Eastern Studies