Priya Satia

Spies in Arabia

The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this groundbreaking book, Priya Satia tracks the intelligence community's tactical grappling with this problem and the myriad cultural, institutional, and political consequences of their methodological choices during and after the Great War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 763g
• ISBN-13: 9780199734801
• ISBN-10: 0199734801
• Artikelnr.: 27870153

Autorenporträt

Priya Satia is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: War and Hope
2: The Foundations of Covert Empire
3: The Cultural World of the Edwardian Agent
4: The Failure of Empiricism and How the Agents Addressed It
5: Cunning in War
6: Imperial Expiation
Part II: Peace and Terror
7: Official Conspiracy Theories and the Wagers of Genius
8: Air Control
9: Covert Empire
10: Seeing Like a Democracy
11: Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography