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" The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951 : "
by Wm. Roger Louis.
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BL
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873687
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Louis, William Roger,1936-
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The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951 : : Arab nationalism, the United States, and postwar imperialism /\ by Wm. Roger Louis.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1984.
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xvii, 803 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0198224893
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: 0198229607
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: 9780198224891
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: 9780198229605
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The northern tier : Iran, Turkey, and Greece, 1945-1947 -- pt. 3. British defence of the Middle East. Prelude : turning points and controversies -- The Arab League -- Independence in Syria and Lebanon : the significance of the crisis of 1945 -- Saudi Arabia : the question of oil and the accommodation of the United States -- Cyprus : self-determination versus strategic security in the eastern Mediterranean -- Egypt : British 'evacuation and the 'unity of the Nile Valley' -- The Italian colonies and British strategic rights in Cyrenaica -- Iraq : 'the vital Imperial connection' and questions of Iraqi nationalism -- Transjordan and 'Mr. Bevin's little king' -- pt. 4. Palestine. Prelude : Ernest Bevin and the legacy of the Balfour Declaration -- The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry -- The evolution of American policy and the quest for a binational state -- From Yom Kippur 1946 to British atonement in the United Nations 1947 -- The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine and the British decision to evacuate -- The United States and the United Nations vote of the 29th of November 1947 -- The winter of 1947-1948 : towards partition or trusteeship? -- The United States and the end of British rule in Palestine -- The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 : political implications -- pt. 5. The Middle East, 1949-1951. Prelude : from Deir Yassin in 1948 to Egyptian abrogation in 1951 -- The future of the Middle Eastern States : questions of economic 'viability' and political stability -- The Persian oil crisis -- Catastrophe foreshadowed : controversy with Egypt over the canal zone and Sudan -- The Middle East and the fall of the Labour government in 1951 : the end of an era.
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Außenpolitik
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Diplomatic relations.
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Nationalismus
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Aussenpolitik.
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Great Britain, Foreign relations, 1945-1964.
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Great Britain, Foreign relations, Middle East.
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Middle East, Foreign relations, Great Britain.
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Grande-Bretagne, Relations extérieures, 1945-
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Grande-Bretagne, Relations extérieures, Moyen-Orient.
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Moyen-Orient, Relations extérieures, Grande-Bretagne.
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Arabische Staaten
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Middle East.
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Naher Osten
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| Dewey Classification
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327.41056
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| LC Classification
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DS63.2.G7L68 1984
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15.00bcl
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3,6ssgn
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b 166ifzs
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b 166.10ifzs
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ML 5000rvk
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NQ 7770rvk
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