Reassessing Suez 1956: New Perspectives on the Crisis and its Aftermath

by Simon C. Smith

Overview

Although much has been written on the nationalization of the Suez Canal, and the subsequent military action, this study provides fresh perspectives by reflecting the latest research from leading international authorities on the crisis. Drawing on recently released documents, including previously neglected aspects of Suez, and by reassessing its more familiar ones, the volume makes a key contribution to furthering research on, and understanding of, events in Egypt in 1956.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409480136
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	06/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Simon C. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Hull, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction, Simon C. Smith; Chapter 1 Prelude to the Suez Crisis: The Rise and Fall of British Dominance over the Suez Canal, 1869–1956, Steve Morewood; Chapter 2 Eden, Churchill and the Battle of the Canal Zone, 1951–1954, Michael T. Thornhill; Chapter 3 Britain and the Suez Crisis: The Abadan Dimension, Peter J. Beck; Chapter 4 Julian Amery and the Suez Operation, Sue Onslow; Chapter 5 Who to Fight in 1956, Egypt or Israel? Operation Musketeer versus Operation Cordage, Eric Grove; Chapter 6 French–Israeli Relations, 1950–1956: The Strategic Dimension, Zach Levey; Chapter 7 Supporting the Brave Young King: The Suez Crisis and Eisenhower's New Approach to Jordan, 1953–1958, Clea Lutz Bunch; Chapter 8 A Reluctant Partner of the US over Suez? Turkey and the Suez Crisis, Ayşegül Sever; Chapter 9 The 1956 Sinai War: A Watershed in the History of the Arab—Israeli Conflict, David Tal; Chapter 10 When Did Nasser Expect War? The Suez Nationalization and its Aftermath in Egypt, Laura M. James; Chapter 11 The Suez Crisis at the United Nations: The Effects for the Foreign Office and British Foreign Policy, Edward Johnson; Chapter 12 In Search of 'Some Big, Imaginative Plan': The Eisenhower Administration and American strategy in the Middle East after Suez, Richard V. Damms; Chapter 13 Telling Tales Out of School: Nutting, Eden and the Attempted Suppression of No End of a Lesson, Philip Murphy; Chapter 14 Post-Suez Consequences: Anglo-American Relations in the Middle East from Eisenhower to Nixon, Tore T. Petersen; Chapter 15 Suez 1956 and the Moral Disarmament of the British Empire, A.J. Stockwell; conclusion Conclusion, Scott Lucas;