Britain and the Middle East

From the Earliest Times to 1950
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-00699-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1951, Britain and the Middle East sets forth briefly the relations which the people and the government of Britain had with the Middle East from the earliest records of such relations until 1950. The term “Middle East” used in this book includes what used to be called the Near East as well as most of the Middle East proper. It covers Turkey and Iran (Persia), Cyprus, Syria and Lebanon, Palestine and Trans-Jordan (Israel and Jordan), Iraq, Egypt, the Sudan, and the whole of the Arabian Peninsula.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bullard, Sir Reader

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Pilgrims and Crusaders 2. The Merchant Adventurers 3. The Beginnings of the Eastern Question 4. Drang nach Osten 5. The First World War 6. Between the Wars 7. The Second World War and After 8. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Sir Reader Bullard was H.M. Minister (afterwards ambassador) at Tehran 1939–46. He started in the Levant Consular Service in Turkey, went on into Iraq in World War I and after, then the Hejaz, Greece, Ethiopia, Russia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia (where, a pilgrim, he dealt with pilgrims and attained Ministerial rank), and finally became Ambassador in Persia in World War II.