Churchill and the Islamic World
Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East
Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the twentieth century, yet he began his career as a colonial policeman in the North-West borderlands of India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus that Churchill was indifferent to, and even contemptuous of, matters concerning the Middle East, this book unravels Churchill's nuanced understanding of the edges of the British Empire. Warren Dockter analyses the future Prime Minister's experiences of the East, including his work as Colonial Under-Secretary in the early 1900s, his relations with the Ottomans…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78076-818-2
- EAN: 9781780768182
- Produktnummer: 15504719
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Masse: H14.9 cm x B22.4 cm x D4.0 cm 650 g
- Abbildungen: 14 bw in 8pp plates
- Gewicht: 650
- Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Über den Autor
Warren Dockter is Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He has written widely on Winston Churchill and received his PhD in History from the University of Nottingham.
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