Wm. Roger Louis, CBE is Kerr Professor at the University of Texas and Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. A Past President of the American Historical Association, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford History of the British Empire series. His books include The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951.
Introduction
Part I From Musaddiq to Nasser, 1952-March 1956
1: Muhammad Musaddiq and 'Iranian Englishmen'
2: The Overthrow of the Musaddiq Government
3: The Oil Consortium of 1954
4: Prelude to the Revolution in Egypt
5: The Egyptian Revolution and Its Aftermath
6: The Critical Year 1955
7: The Sudan's Independence
8: Jordan in 1956
9: The Buraimi Oasis and the Arabian Peninsula
10: Towards the Upheaval
Part II The Suez Crisis
11: Nasser's Nationalization of the Suez Canal Company
12: Misconceptions
13: The Suez Canal Users Association
14: The Invasion
Part III The Middle East, 1957-1971
15: The Crises of 1957-1958
16: The Iraqi Revolution
17: The 1967 War
18: The Collapse in Aden
19: The Withdrawal from the Gulf
20: The Legacy of the Balfour Declaration
Epilogue
