Lords of the desert : Britain's struggle with America to dominate the Middle East / James Barr
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| رقم التسجيلة | 9322 |
| نوع المادة | book |
| ردمك | 9781471139802 |
| رقم الطلب |
DA 47.9 .M628 B37 |
| المؤلف | Barr, James |
| العنوان | Lords of the desert : Britain's struggle with America to dominate the Middle East / James Barr |
| بيانات النشر | London, [UNITED KINGDOM]: Simon & Schuster, 2018. |
| الوصف المادي | 401. p |
| المحتويات / النص |
Heading for trouble 1941-48
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| المستخلص |
"Within a single generation, between 1945 and 1970, America replaced Britain as the dominant power in the Middle East. By any standard, it was an extraordinary role reversal and it was one that came with very little warning. Starting in the nineteenth century, Britain had first established themselves as protector of the sheikhdoms along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, before acquiring Aden, Cyprus and then Egypt and the Sudan. In the Great War in the twentieth century they then added Palestine, Jordan and Iraq by conquest. And finally Britain had jointly run Iran with the Soviets since 1941 to defeat Hitler. The discovery of vast oil reserves in Saudi Arabia, at a time when the United States' own domestic reserves seemed to be running low, made America's initial interest commercial. But trade required political stability. Its absence led the United States to look more critically at the conduct of her major ally in the region. Added to this theatre of operations, the Zionists in Israel after World War One actively pursued a policy to establish and win an independent state for the Jews - which spurred on by thousands of Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe enabled them to build up the forces necessary to achieve power. How would Britain manage both Arab and Jewish positions and still maintain power? In 1943 they came up with an ambitious plan do so, and in 1944 put it into action.Somewhere East of Suez tells this story."
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| المواضيع | Great Britain - Foreign relations - Middle EastGreat Britain - Foreign relations - United StatesGreat Britain - Foreign relations - 1945- |
| المواضيع | United States - Foreign relations - Middle EastMiddle East - History - 20th century |
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| 300 | |a 401. p |
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|a Heading for trouble 1941-48
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|a "Within a single generation, between 1945 and 1970, America replaced Britain as the dominant power in the Middle East. By any standard, it was an extraordinary role reversal and it was one that came with very little warning. Starting in the nineteenth century, Britain had first established themselves as protector of the sheikhdoms along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, before acquiring Aden, Cyprus and then Egypt and the Sudan. In the Great War in the twentieth century they then added Palestine, Jordan and Iraq by conquest. And finally Britain had jointly run Iran with the Soviets since 1941 to defeat Hitler. The discovery of vast oil reserves in Saudi Arabia, at a time when the United States' own domestic reserves seemed to be running low, made America's initial interest commercial. But trade required political stability. Its absence led the United States to look more critically at the conduct of her major ally in the region. Added to this theatre of operations, the Zionists in Israel after World War One actively pursued a policy to establish and win an independent state for the Jews - which spurred on by thousands of Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe enabled them to build up the forces necessary to achieve power. How would Britain manage both Arab and Jewish positions and still maintain power? In 1943 they came up with an ambitious plan do so, and in 1944 put it into action.Somewhere East of Suez tells this story."
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| 600 | |a Great Britain - Foreign relations - United States |
| 600 | |a Great Britain - Foreign relations - Middle East |
| 650 | |a Middle East - History - 20th century |
| 650 | |a United States - Foreign relations - Middle East |
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