Ian Rutledge

Enemy on the Euphrates (eBook, ePUB)

The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed, and gunboats were captured or sunk. Britain's quest for oil was one of the principal reasons for its continuing occupation of Iraq. However, with around 131,000 Arabs in arms at the height of the conflict, the British were very nearly driven out. Only a massive infusion of Indian troops prevented a humiliating rout.

Enemy on the Euphrates is the definitive account of the most serious armed uprising against British rule in the twentieth century. Bringing central players such as Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell vividly to life, Ian Rutledge's masterful account is a powerful reminder of how Britain's imperial objectives sowed the seeds of Iraq's tragic history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saqi Books
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780863567674
• Artikelnr.: 40777650

Autorenporträt

Ian Rutledge is an economist and historian. A graduate of the University of Cambridge where he received his PhD in Economic History, Rutledge is Research Director and co-founder of the Sheffield Energy Resources Information Services. He has taught at the Universities of London and Sheffield and for the Workers' Educational Association. His other publications include Addicted to Oil: America's Relentless Drive for Energy Security. He lives in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Note on Arabic Transliteration
Glossary
Abbreviations
Preface
The Principal Actors
PART ONE: INVASION, JIHAD AND OCCUPATION
1 Indications of Oil
2 Lieutenant Wilson's First Mission
3 'Protect the oil refineries'
4 Arab Mobilisation on the Euphrates
5 The Jihad Defeated
6 Pacifying Arabistan
7 Imperial Objectives in the East
8 The Menace of Jihad and How to Deal with It
9 The Lieutenant from Mosul
10 The Peculiar Origins of an Infamous Agreement
11 Two British Defeats but a New Ally
12 Colonel Leachman and Captain Lawrence
13 Mosul and Oil
14 'Complete liberation'
15 Najaf 1918: First Uprising on the Euphrates
16 Britain's New Colony
17 The Oil Agreements
18 The Independence Movement in Baghdad
19 General Haldane's Difficult Posting
20 Trouble on the Frontiers
PART TWO: REVOLUTION AND SUPPRESSION
21 The Drift to Violence
22 The Revolution Begins
23 Discord and Disputation
24 General Haldane's Indian Army
25 'The situation has come to a head'
26 The Destruction of the Manchester Column
27 'Further unfavourable developments'
28 The Structures of Insurgent Power
29 Trouble on the Home Front
30 The Siege of Samawa
31 Defeat
32 A Death on the Baghdad Road
33 The Punishment
34 A 'friendly native state'
Afterword
Appendix: Some Biographical Notes
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index