In Defence of Britain's Middle Eastern Empire: A Life of Sir Gilbert Clayton - Couverture souple

Paris, Timothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845197852 ISBN 13 : 9781845197858

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2016

Synopsis

T E Lawrence (of Arabia) described his war-time chief as ""the perfect leader"", a man who ""worked by influence rather than by loud direction. He was like water, or permeating oil, creeping silently and insistently through everything. It was not possible to say where Clayton was and was not, and how much really belonged to him"". This is the first biography of General Sir Gilbert Clayton (1875-1929), Britain's pre-eminent ""man-on-the-spot"" during the formative years of the modern Middle East. Serving as a soldier, administrator and diplomat in ten different Middle Eastern countries during a 33-year Middle Eastern career, Clayton is best known as the Director of British Intelligence in Cairo during the Great War (1914-16), and as the instigator and sponsor of the Arab Revolt against the Turks. Dedicated to the preservation of Britain's Middle Eastern empire, Clayton came to realize that in the transformed post-war world Britain could ill afford to control all aspects of the emerging nation-states in the region. In his work as adviser to the Egyptian government (1919-22), he advocated internal autonomy for the Egyptians, while asserting Britain's vital imperial interests in the country. As chief administrator in Palestine (1923-5), he sought to reconcile the Arabs to Britain's national home policy for the Jews, and, at the same time, to solidify Britain's position as Mandatory power. In Arabia, Clayton negotiated the first post-war treaties with the emerging power of Ibn Saud, (1925, 1927), but curtailed his designs on the British Mandates in Iraq and Transjordan. And, in Iraq, where Clayton served as High Commissioner (1929), he backed Iraq's independence within the framework of the British Empire.

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À propos de l'auteur

Timothy J. Paris holds a B.A. in history from Duke University and a J.D. from Indiana University. In 1997, he received a Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University. His first book, Britain, the Hashemites and Arab Rule, 1920-1925: The Sherifian Solution, was published in 2003. Dr. Paris currently practices law in Phoenix, Arizona.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845197852
• ISBN 13: 9781845197858
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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