Western Imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 April 2006
- ISBN 9780199287376
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 241x164x28 mm
- Weight 753 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 maps 0
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Short description:
The Middle East is constantly in the news and is a major focus for international conflict. This book attempts to explain why this is so. It covers the crucial period after 1914, when the Ottoman empire was defeated and its provinces taken over by Britain and France, ending in 1958, when the Iraqi revolution finally ended British influence in the region. It describes both British and French policies and the reactions of Arabs and Jews.
MoreLong description:
The term 'Fertile Crescent' is commonly used as shorthand for the group of territories extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Here it is assumed to consist of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. Much has been written on the history of these countries which were taken from the Ottoman empire after 1918 and became Mandates under the League of Nations. For the most part the histories of these countries have been handled either individually or as part of the history of Britain or France. In the first instance the emphasis has normally been on the development of nationalism and local resistance to alien control in a particular territory, leading to the modern successor state. In the second most studies have concentrated separately on how either France or Britain handled the great problems they inherited, seldom comparing their strategies.
The aim of this book is to see the region as a whole and from both the European and indigenous points of view. The central argument is that the mandate system failed in its stated purpose of establishing stable democratic states out of what had been provinces or parts of provinces within the Ottoman empire. Rather it generated basically unstable polities and, in the special case of Palestine, one totally unresolved, and possibly unsolvable, conflict. The result was to leave the Middle East as perhaps the most volatile part of the world in the later twentieth century and beyond. The main purpose of the book is to examine why this was so.
...the value of this work lies in its exceptional clarity amd the succinctness of its synthesis, which make it ideal for students and the uninitiated. The slim, but judiciously chosen, select bibliography and the detailed index add to its usefulness.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Before the Mandates 1900-1922
The Decline of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East and the 'Arab Awakening' before 1914
War and the Partition of the Ottoman Empire 1914-1922
Part II: Alien rule and Nationalist Reactions 1918-1958
Britain in Mesopotamia/Iraq 1918-1958
Palestine: The Genesis of the Mandate
Palestine: The British Mandate 1918-1948
Transjordan 1918-1956
Syria and the French 1918-1946
Lebanon and the French 1918-1946
Part III
Conclusions
Select Bibliography
Index
