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London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power, and War, 1902-1922 - Hardcover

Adelson, Roger

 
9780300060942: London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power, and War, 1902-1922
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300060947 ISBN 13: 9780300060942
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

In the first quarter of the twentieth century, the British Government, the banks, and leading individuals in London reached historic decisions that determined the name, shape, and future of the region known as the Middle East. In this innovative and entertaining book, Adelson examines who made policy, on what grounds, with what information, and with what results -- identifying the virtual invention of the modern Middle East and the origins of the ethnic and nationalistic antagonisms that characterize the region today.

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Roger Adelson is professor of history at Arizona State University.

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In the first quarter of the twentieth century, the British Government, the banks, and leading individuals in London reached historic decisions that determined the name, shape and future of the region known as the Middle East. In this innovative and entertaining book Roger Adelson examines who made policy, on what grounds, with what information, and with what results. The setting for the narrative is London, then the world's greatest metropolis and its financial and political centre. In both words and little-known photographs, Adelson evokes the atmosphere of Whitehall, Fleet Street, the City of London, and Westminster, and paints a vivid portrait of the individuals (Balfour, Churchill, Lloyd George, Curzon, Cromer, and others) who defined the political agenda. Using an extensive range of public and private archives, he identifies issues of money, power, and territorial ambition at the heart of policy, and decisions made in ignorance of and often wholly without reference to local interests.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300060947
ISBN 13 
9780300060942
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
260
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