In this major new study of British policy in the Middle East, Peter Mangold shows how the British sought to protect their changing interests in the region - imperial communications, oil, status and the threat from terrorism - and their response to Arab and Iranian nationalism. H…
"Britain has been engaged in the Middle East for over two centuries. During the Napoleonic Wars it expelled the French from Egypt. During World War I it helped to dismantle the Ottoman empire. During World War II, it defeated the Italians and Germans. In the post-war years, it a…
This volume, based on both European and Ottoman sources, investigates the commercial, military and diplomatic relations between the Dutch and the English in the Levant from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. On the one hand there was a more or less constant c…
This study traces the British and American responses to the Turco-Iraqi Pact of 1955, the Suez crisis, the Syrian crisis of 1957, the outbreak of civil strife in Lebanon and the Iraqi revolution of 1958.