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The End of Empire in the Gulf
From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates
The End of Empire in the Gulf
From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates
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With the end of the British Raj in 1947, the Foreign Office replaced the Government of India as the department responsible for the Persian Gulf, and would proceed to manage relations with the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates, UAE) until British withdrawal in 1971. This work is a comprehensive history of British policy in the region during that period, situated for the first time in its broad historical and political context.
Tancred Bradshaw – an academic historian with extensive experience in the region – sheds light onto the discovery of oil in Abu Dhabi in the 1950s, Foreign Office attempts to instigate a long-term development policy in the region, the slow end of the British Empire, the origins of the UAE and – most importantly – the British legacy in this geopolitically crucial region today. The book relies on 40,000 pages of archival material, much of it previously unused, and will be of interest to Imperial historians, as well as anyone working on the history and politics of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Benign Neglect: the Government of India and the Trucial States, c. 1800-1947
Chapter 2: The Neo-Raj: British Policy in the Trucial States during the 1950s
Chapter 3: The Conservative Government and the Trucial States, 1960-1964: the Consolidation of British Influence
Chapter 4: Responsibility Without Power: The Vicissitudes of British policy in the Trucial States, 1964-1967
Chapter 5: The Withdrawal from the Gulf: All Politics and No Strategy
Chapter 6: Epilogue
Conclusion
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | Jul 29 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9780755643752 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 15 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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