BRITISH IMPERIALISM TRIBAL QUEST OHM C

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-872931-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 557 g

British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question ' reconstructs the history of Britain's presence in the deserts of the interwar Middle East, making the case for its significance to scholars of imperialism and of the region's past. It tells the story of what happened when the British Empire and Bedouin communities met on the desert frontiers between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. It traces the workings of the resulting practices of 'desert administration' from their origins in the wake of one World War to their eclipse after the next, as British officials, Bedouin shaykhs, and nationalist politicians jostled to influence desert affairs.

Drawn to the commanding heights of political society in the region's towns and cities, historians have tended to afford frontier 'margins' merely marginal treatment. Instead, this volume combines the study of imperialism, nomads, and the desert itself to reveal the centrality of 'desert administration' to the working of Britain's empire, repositioning neglected frontier areas as nerve centres of imperial activity. British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question ' leads the shift in historians' attentions from the familiar, urban seats of power to the desert 'hinterlands' that have long been obscured.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fletcher

Fletcher, Robert S. G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The View from the Frontier

- Part I

- 1: Asking 'the Tribal Question': The Royal Central Asian Society in the World

- 2: Beating the Bounds: The Growth of British Desert Administration

- PART II

- 3: Running the Corridor

- 4: Making the Desert Bloom? Development, Ideology, and the Future of the Steppe

- PART III

- 5: Somewhat Light Soil: The Eclipse of British Desert Administration

- Conclusion: Deserts, Nomads, and Empire in the Interwar World

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Fletcher grew up in Colchester, Essex, and studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. Between 2005 and 2007 he worked in Tokushima, Japan, before returning to Magdalen to read for a doctorate. He has held appointments as a Research Fellow of Nuffield College, the Fleet Fellow at Princeton University, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global History at the University of Oxford, and as Lecturer in Imperial and Global History at the University of Exeter. He joined the University of Warwick in 2015. His research combines an interest in the history of empires, nomadic peoples and desert environments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work on both arid and maritime frontiers has appeared in Past and Present and The English Historical Review.