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The Arab Bureau
- British Policy in the Middle East, 1916–1920
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Arab Bureau af Bruce Westrate, 9780271023243
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Engelsk
Sider:
260
ISBN-13:
9780271023243
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0271023244
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 apr 1992
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 22,9 x 2,0
Oplagsdato:
15 apr 1992
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The Arab Bureau

- British Policy in the Middle East, 1916–1920
Engelsk
Paperback 1992
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Founded in 1916, the Arab Bureau was a small collection of British intelligence officers headquartered in Cairo and charged with the task of coordinating imperial intelligence activities in the Middle East. It is most often remembered for its flamboyant cast of characters, particularly T. E. Lawrence, and its role in instigating the Arab Revolt to break Turkish control over the Arab-speaking Middle East. From the beginning, however, the Bureau was vilified within imperial circles as a group of amateurish and incompetent pro-Arab dilettantes. And ever since, it has borne much of the blame for Britain's terrible mishandling of Middle Eastern policy during and shortly after World War I. In this first full-length study of the Arab Bureau, Bruce Westrate challenges these stereotypes and reassesses the role that the Bureau actually played within imperial policy-making circles that stretched from London to Cairo to Delhi. Through close analysis of personal papers and Foreign Office records, including Arab Bureau documents, Westrate concludes that Bureau members were in fact sober-minded strategists who were skillfully working to secure the region for imperial interests.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
260
ISBN-13:
9780271023243
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0271023244
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 apr 1992
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 22,9 x 2,0
Oplagsdato:
15 apr 1992
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