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Item Details
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EMPIRE OF SAND
HOW BRITAIN MADE THE MIDDLE EAST |
| By: |
Walter Reid |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1780270615 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781780270616 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
12 September, 2013 |
| Pages: |
490 |
| Description: |
Now in paperback, this is the first major assessment of Britain's role in creating the instability that still reigns in the middle-east. Using primary and secondary sources, Reid charts the lines in the sand that mark the uncertain beginnings of the region, the discovery of oil and the political wrangling that would forever tear the region apart. |
| Synopsis: |
At the end of the First World War Britain and to a much lesser extent France created the modern Middle East. The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were carved up with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there. Frontiers were devised and alien dynasties imposed on the populations as arbitrarily as in medieval times. From the outset the project was destined to failure. Conflicting and ambiguous promises had been made to the Arabs during the war but were not honoured. Brief hopes for Arab unity were dashed, and a harsh belief in western perfidy persists to the present day. Britain was quick to see the riches promised by the black pools of oil that lay on the ground around Baghdad. When France too grasped their importance, bitter differences opened up and the area became the focus of a return to traditional enmity. The war-time allies came close to blows and then drifted apart, leaving a vacuum of which Hitler took advantage.Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, when Britain handed over Palestine to UN control. From the decisions that Britain made has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the world-wide tensions that threaten the twenty-first century. How far was Britain to blame? |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Birlinn Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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