John Fisher

Outskirts of Empire

Studies in British Power Projection

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the substructure of Britain's interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographically wide area and highlight the network of Britons required to sustain the British presence in the Near East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781138487598
• ISBN-10: 1138487597
• Artikelnr.: 53774581

Autorenporträt

John Fisher is Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of the West of England, UK. His previous publications have focused largely on British interests in the Middle East and North Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as on other aspects of British foreign policy in that timeframe.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1:
Britain and Abyssinia: the forward view Chapter 2: Mesopotamia in the
official mind, before, during and after the First World War Chapter 3: The
Politics of Relief: British humanitarian aid to the Turk, 1876-7 Chapter 4:
'Casting out Devils': British military consuls in Turkey Chapter 5: A
spearhead of influence in the Near East: the New Levant Company and British
commerce in the aftermath of war Chapter 6: The Foreign Office and the
issue of sacred space in Morocco, c1860 to 1970 Bibliography