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BL
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1090166
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bc101034
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English
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| Main Entry
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Rizk, Younan Labib,1933-2008.
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| Title & Author
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Britain and Arab unity : : a documentary history from the Treaty of Versailles to the end of World War II /\ by Younan Labib Rizk.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: I.B. Tauris ;Beirut :: Centre for Arab Unity Studies,, ©2009.
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| Series Statement
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Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ;; v. 2
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1 online resource (ix, 261 pages).
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| ISBN
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9781441641168
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: 1441641165
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: 9780857711038
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: 0857711032
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9781848850590
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184885059X
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.
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| Contents
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Britain's divisive role prior to 1919. Indianisation of the Gulf ; The isolation of Egypt ; The Judaisation of Palestine -- The Arab kingdom 1919-23. Arab unity during World War I ; The Arab kingdom ; The Arab confederation -- The Arab conference 1931-3. The Islamic conference in Jerusalem ; The Arab conference in Baghdad -- Between Arab unity and pan-Arabism 1936-41. Pan-Islamism-Arabism ; Pouring over the concepts ; The impact of the war -- British policy towards Arab unity during World War II 1941-3. New planning ; Economic cultural unity ; Convening the Arab conference -- Britain and the establishment of the Arab league 1943-5. The preparatory meeting ; The Antoniadis conference ; Issuing the charter.
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| Abstract
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British attitudes towards Arab unity have frequently been a source of controversy. Younan Labib Rizk here provides a coherent Arab perspective derived from considerable in-depth research into British archives, covering the period 1919 to 1945. His analysis reveals how British government policy was formed in this period and concludes that repeated British administrations were consistent in their concern and hostility towards the notion of Arab unity. While this conforms with traditional Arab views of British policy in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, the importance of Rizk's work lies in h.
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Panarabism.
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- General.
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Diplomatic relations.
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Panarabism.
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Politics and government
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Great Britain, Foreign relations, Arab countries.
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Arab countries, Foreign relations, Great Britain.
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1910-1936.
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1936-1945.
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Arab countries.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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327.40174927
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| LC Classification
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DS63.2.G7R57 2009eb
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