Ending Empire In The Middle East

Author : Simon C. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136501463

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Ending Empire in the Middle East by Simon C. Smith Pdf

This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both British and American archival sources, it covers all the key events of the period, including the withdrawal from Palestine, the Anglo-American coup against the Musaddiq regime in Iran, the Suez Crisis and its aftermath, the Iraqi and Yemeni revolutions, and the Arab-Israeli conflicts. It demonstrates that, far from experiencing a ‘loss of nerve’ or tamely acquiescing in a transfer of power to the United States, British decision-makers robustly defended their regional interests well into the 1960s and even beyond. It also argues that concept of the ‘special relationship’ impeded the smooth-running of Anglo-American relations in the region by obscuring differences, stymieing clear communication, and practising self-deception on policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic who assumed a contiguity which all too often failed to exist. With the Middle East at the top of the contemporary international policy agenda, and recent Anglo-American interventions fuelling interest in empire, this is a timely book of importance to all those interested in the contemporary development of the region.

Author : Glen Balfour-Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521466369

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The End of Empire in the Middle East by Glen Balfour-Paul Pdf

An original and perceptive study of Britain's withdrawal from her last Arab dependencies - the Sudan, South West Arabia and the Gulf States.

Author : John Townsend
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857715937

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Proconsul to the Middle East by John Townsend Pdf

Britain's Moment in the Middle East: was it an imperial triumph or a decisive staging post in the end-of-empire story? Sir Percy Cox (1864-1937) was a vital figure in the history of the British Empire in the Middle East, part of the pantheon with such legends as T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell. As High Commissioner in Iraq from 1920 to 1923 he presided over the birth of modern Iraq - the climax of his career - but left an infant state fraught with political, ethnic and religious problems which have bedeviled Iraq and the Middle East to the present day. John Townsend paints a convincing picture of Britain's global empire and brings Cox to life as an archetypal patrician proconsul. This is the first major biography of Cox, based on extensive research in original sources and long experience in the region. It strikingly illustrates the troubled contemporary history of Iraq and the modern Middle East and will become the standard work on Cox.

Author : Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0415158494

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The Middle East by Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis Pdf

An account of the politics of the Middle East over the last 50 years. It is an attempt to make sense of the Middle East in the New World Order.

Author : Keith Kyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OCLC:1346055724

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Suez by Keith Kyle Pdf

Author : C. O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137025258

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FDR and the End of Empire by C. O'Sullivan Pdf

Based upon extensive archival research in Great Britain, the United States, and the Middle East, including sources never previously utilized such as declassified intelligence records, postwar planning documents, and the personal papers of key officials, this is painstakingly researched account of the origins of American involvement in the Middle East during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It explores the effort to challenge British and French power, and the building of new relationships with Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Levant states. It also reveals new and controversial discoveries about Roosevelt's views on Palestine, his relations with Middle East leaders, and his often bitter conflicts with Churchill and de Gaulle over European imperialism. Modern-day parallels make this story compelling for followers of current events, World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, the Middle East, or British imperialism.

Author : Tancred Bradshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838600792

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The End of Empire in the Gulf by Tancred Bradshaw Pdf

With the end of the British Raj in 1947, the Foreign Office replaced the Government of India as the department responsible for the Persian Gulf, and would proceed to manage relations with the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates, UAE) until British withdrawal in 1971. This work is a comprehensive history of British policy in the region during that period, situated for the first time in its broad historical and political context. Tancred Bradshaw – an academic historian with extensive experience in the region – sheds light onto the discovery of oil in Abu Dhabi in the 1950s, Foreign Office attempts to instigate a long-term development policy in the region, the slow end of the British Empire, the origins of the UAE and – most importantly – the British legacy in this geopolitically crucial region today. The book relies on 40,000 pages of archival material, much of it previously unused, and will be of interest to Imperial historians, as well as anyone working on the history and politics of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.

Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817912963

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The End of Modern History in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis Pdf

Bernard Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East. With the departure of imperial powers, the region must now, on its own, resolve the political, economic, cultural, and societal problems that prevent it from accomplishing the next stage in the advance of civilization. There is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the other, he explains, to provide the basis for an advance toward freedom in the true sense of that word.

Author : David Charlwood
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526757098

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Suez Crisis 1956 by David Charlwood Pdf

A fast-paced short history that moves between London, Washington, and Cairo to reveal the crisis that brought down a prime minister. Includes photos, a timeline, and a special afterword examining the parallels with the 2003 Iraq war In 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, ending nearly a century of British and French control over the crucial waterway. Ignoring U.S. diplomatic efforts and fears of a looming Cold War conflict, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden misled Parliament and the press to take Britain to war alongside France and Israel. In response to a secretly planned Israeli attack in the Sinai, France and Britain intervened as “peacemakers.” The invasion of Egypt was supposed to restore British and French control of the canal and reaffirm Britain’s flagging prestige. Instead, the operation spectacularly backfired, setting Britain and the United States on a collision course that would change the balance of power in the Middle East. The combined air, sea, and land battle witnessed the first helicopter-borne deployment of assault troops and the last large-scale parachute drop into a conflict zone by British forces. French and British soldiers fought together against the Soviet-equipped Egyptian military in a short campaign that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers—along with innocent civilians. This book, by a prominent historian specializing in the Middle East, tells the story.

Author : Keith Kyle
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 0297811622

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Suez by Keith Kyle Pdf

Author : David Fromkin
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429988520

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A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin Pdf

Published with a new afterword from the author—the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts—including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects—are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time, showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East began along a road that led to the conflicts and confusion that continue to this day. A new afterword from Fromkin, written for this edition of the book, includes his invaluable, updated assessment of this region of the world today, and on what this history has to teach us.

Author : Hardy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787380493

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The Poisoned Well by Hardy Pdf

Almost fifty years after Britain and France left the Middle East, the toxic legacies of their rule continue to fester. To make sense of today’s conflicts and crises, we need to grasp how Western imperialism shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between 1917 and 1967. Roger Hardy unearths an imperial history stretching from North Africa to southern Arabia that sowed the seeds of future conflict and poisoned relations between the Middle East and the West. Drawing on a rich cast of eye-witnesses — ranging from nationalists and colonial administrators to soldiers, spies, and courtesans — The Poisoned Well brings to life the making of the modern Middle East, highlighting the great dramas of decolonisation such as the end of the Palestine mandate, the Suez crisis, the Algerian war of independence, and the retreat from Aden. Concise and beautifully written, The Poisoned Well offers a thought-provoking and insightful story of the colonial legacy in the Middle East.

Author : Graham Jevon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107177833

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Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion by Graham Jevon Pdf

This study uses the private papers of Glubb Pasha to rethink the end of Britain's imperial presence in the Middle East.

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807003145

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Resurrecting Empire by Rashid Khalidi Pdf

Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the political and cultural history of the entire region as well as interviews and documents, Khalidi paints a chilling scenario of our present situation and yet offers a tangible alternative that can help us find the path to peace rather than Empire. We all know that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Sadly, as Khalidi reveals with clarity and surety, America's leaders seem blindly committed to an ahistorical path of conflict, occupation, and colonial rule. Our current policies ignore rather than incorporate the lessons of experience. American troops in Iraq have seen first hand the consequences of U.S. led "democratization" in the region. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict seems intractable, and U.S. efforts in recent years have only inflamed the situation. The footprints America follows have led us into the same quagmire that swallowed our European forerunners. Peace and prosperity for the region are nowhere in sight. This cogent and highly accessible book provides the historical and cultural perspective so vital to understanding our present situation and to finding and pursuing a more effective and just foreign policy. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Walter Reid
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857900807

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Empire of Sand by Walter Reid Pdf

At the end of the First World War Britain and to a much lesser extent France created the modern Middle East. The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were carved up with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there. Frontiers were devised and alien dynasties imposed on the populations as arbitrarily as in medieval times. From the outset the project was destined to failure. Conflicting and ambiguous promises had been made to the Arabs during the war but were not honoured. Brief hopes for Arab unity were dashed, and a harsh belief in western perfidy persists to the present day. Britain was quick to see the riches promised by the black pools of oil that lay on the ground around Baghdad. When France too grasped their importance, bitter differences opened up and the area became the focus of a return to traditional enmity. The war-time allies came close to blows and then drifted apart, leaving a vacuum of which Hitler took advantage. Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, when Britain handed over Palestine to UN control. From the decisions that Britain made has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the world-wide tensions that threaten the twenty-first century. How far was Britain to blame?