Historical section foreign office prothero (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Covers chipped. Spine and hinges taped. Corners creased. (economics, public debt, indemnity, cost of war).

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 81 pages; Description : 81 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Netherlands -- History -- Geography -- Foreign relations -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945. Series: Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office ; no. 25. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. This handbook relates to Desolation Islands in the Antarctic. Original grey printed wraps 14 x 22cm. 16pp + 1 folding map in back pocket. Wraps and interiors lightly creased with some marks. Staples rusted. A couple of pencilled annotations, one of which flags a warning not to allow Kerguelen to pass into German keeping, raising the possibility of the French giving the right of pre-emption to the British. Map fine, neatly folded without tears. This is one in a series of handbooks first issued in 1918-19 for British Delegates to the Paris Peace Conference, then declassified and reissued to the general public in modified form without maps in 1920. This first edition, dated December 1918, comes with map. Contents - Geography (physical and political); Political History (discovery, exploration, French claims); Social and Political Conditions; Economic Conditions (communication, industry); Authorities. Map 64 x 54cm on a scale of 2.2 inches to 10 miles.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The confidential first edition dated March 1919, prepared for the British Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (a second declassified edition made available to the public without the map appeared in 1920, retitled "Tanganyika (German East Africa)" and renumbered No. 113). Original grey printed card wraps 14x22cm. vi, 117pp, complete with the colour folding map in a back pocket. Very good, lightly bumped and creased to the corners, tanned to the spine, blue crayon number to the front. Map spotted, neatly folded with short closed fold tears. Chapters describe physical and human geography, political history (starting with Portuguese influence through to Arab rule, British and German interests, and native opposition), social and political conditions, and economy, with Treaty extracts in the Appendices. No authors are indicated, but it was a collective effort, with the series edited by George Walter Prothero, Director of the Historical Section, which had been established purposely by the Foreign Office. Histories were voluntarily contributed by experts, geography by Naval Intelligence Division staff, and economics by the Foreign Office War Trade Intelligence Department. The map is by the Geographical Section General Staff of the War Office: "General Map of German East Africa", GSGS No. 2814, War Office, July 1916. 80x78cm, 1/2M, bounded by Lake Victoria (N), the Swahili coast from Lamu to Pekavi with Zanzibar about midway (E), the border with Portuguese East Africa (S), and Lake Tanganyika (W). Features include railways, roads (mostly fit for light wheeled traffic), important tracks and routes, marshes, mission stations, and international boundaries. This edition appears to be very rare, with Worldcat and Library Hub locating copies at the British Museum and British Library only (OCLC 558925343).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 2nd Edition. The declassified second edition with a new Editorial Note by G.W. Prothero dated January 1920. Original printed green wraps with green cloth spine 14x21cm. (4), 18pp. Fine, faded at the edges of the upper wrap. This reproduces the text of the confidential first edition, prepared for the British Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. No authors are indicated, but it was a collective effort, with the series edited by Prothero, formerly Director of the Historical Section, which had been established purposely by the Foreign Office. This opens with a timeline from the zenith of the Seljuk Empire in 1072 up to Ibn Saud's expulsion of the Turks from Hasa and Eastern Arabia in 1913. The authors define Turkey in Asia as the northwestern third ("the only part which is generally Turkish in feeling") and the southern half ("almost entirely Arab, identifies itself very imperfectly with Osmanli tradition and hope"). In this context, they cover the origin and development of the Ottoman Empire; relations between Provinces and the Porte distinguishing independent states and the growing power of Dere Beys (local families or "valley lords"); and centralisation of government in Anatolia, and in Syria and Arabia under Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim. A discussion of Abdul Hamid's Asiatic policy covers Arabia from 1841, Iraq, the Bedouin and Kurds. The section on Arabia features Ibn Saud, events around the Holy Cities and the Hejaz Railway, Najd, Yemen, Kuwait, and Qatar. The section on Iraq and its borderlands examines why the Ottomans were unable to exert the same level of control they did over Syria. The Bedouin and Kurdish problems relate to regions to the north and south of the Mesopotamian steppe, and Abdul Hamid's success in dealing with them. Another section looks at the origins of anti-Ottoman nationalism which developed in Syria, Beirut, Basrah and Baghdad facilitated by the Young Turks. The authors conclude: "The Bedouin element does not desire any government; the Shiahs do not desire a Sunni government, no one except perhaps some Kurds wants to be ruled by the Turks; but all desire to be ruled by Moslems". A final section looks at impacts and likely responses of other groups including Christian communities, Jews, and flags the impact of the establishment of a Zionist home in Palestine.…