Pierre Crabites was an American Historian, admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1900. In 1911, President William H. Taft appointed him as the American representative on the Mixed Courts of Egypt in Cairo, Egypt.[3]

• Preface 1. The Rape of Egypt 2. The Downward Path 3. The Upward Trend 4. The Fight on the Corvee 5. The War on Slavery 6. The Baker Expedition 7. The Gordon Mission 8. Canals and Bridges 9. Averting a Financial Crisis 10. Abraham Bay 11. The Sultan and His Birds 12. The Sultan Outgrows Birds 13. Shut that Window! 14. The Cave Report 15. The Goschen Mission 16. Ministerial Responsibility 17. The Last Phase INDEX