"This book investigates the substructure of Britain's interests in the Near East and beyond during the ninetee
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English Pages 193 Year 2019
Table of contents :
Britain and Abyssinia : the forward view --
Mesopotamia in the official mind, before, during and after the First World War --
The politics of relief : British humanitarian aid to the Turk, 1876-7 --
"Casting out devils" : British military consuls in Turkey --
A spearhead of influence in the Near East : the New Levant Company and British commerce in the aftermath of war --
The Foreign Office and the issue of sacred space in Morocco, c1860 to 1970.