Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East 1780270615, 9781780270616

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Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East
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At the end of the First World War Britain and to a much lesser extent France created the modern Middle East. The possess

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The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure pr

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"Extensively researched—with detailed source notes and an expansive bibliography—and cogently argued, Gerolymatos&#

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Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the

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The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East

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An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politics Foundations is a histor

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This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues tha

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Sir Kennedy Trevaskis was the last High Commissioner of South Arabia - a role he held from 1963–1965, which provided the

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This compelling analysis of the modern Middle East - based on research in 19 archives and numerous languages - shows the

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Gradually since 2002, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power – in

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