Abstrakt
The present study focuses firstly on the personality of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, who worked as the British Agent and Consul-General in Cairo in 1883-1907 and who represented the British authority in Egypt, and secondly, on an analysis of his attitudes towards the questions of British imperialism as well as the relationship between the British and the subject native nations with a special regard to Egypt. It also treats the clashes between East and West and the future of the British Empire in broader economic, political and cultural context.
Although Cromer treated the subject mainly after being forced to leave Egypt and most significantly in his essay The Government of Subject Races, published in The Edinburgh Review in 1908, and in his extensive study Ancient and Modern Imperialism in 1910, a considerable part of his original views of Orient and Orientals can be only found in the two volumes of his work Modern Egypt from 1908.