Britain and the Middle East: From the Earliest Times to 1950

by Sir Reader Bullard

Overview

First published in 1951, Britain and the Middle East sets forth briefly the relations which the people and the government of Britain had with the Middle East from the earliest records of such relations until 1950. The term “Middle East” used in this book includes what used to be called the Near East as well as most of the Middle East proper. It covers Turkey and Iran (Persia), Cyprus, Syria and Lebanon, Palestine and Trans-Jordan (Israel and Jordan), Iraq, Egypt, the Sudan, and the whole of the Arabian Peninsula.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781041006992
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/2025
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sir Reader Bullard was H.M. Minister (afterwards ambassador) at Tehran 1939–46. He started in the Levant Consular Service in Turkey, went on into Iraq in World War I and after, then the Hejaz, Greece, Ethiopia, Russia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia (where, a pilgrim, he dealt with pilgrims and attained Ministerial rank), and finally became Ambassador in Persia in World War II.

Table of Contents

Introduction  1. Pilgrims and Crusaders  2. The Merchant Adventurers  3. The Beginnings of the Eastern Question  4. Drang nach Osten  5. The First World War  6. Between the Wars  7. The Second World War and After  8. Epilogue 

Editorial Reviews

Review of the first publication:

‘… [this book] will be indispensable alike to the general reader and to the specialist student of Middle Easter affairs. The story if told with erudition, humour, and wisdom.’

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