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British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question ': Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919-1936 de Robert S. G. Fletcher

British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question ': Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919-1936: Oxford Historical Monographs

Autor Robert S. G. Fletcher
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 feb 2015
British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question ' reconstructs the history of Britain's presence in the deserts of the interwar Middle East, making the case for its significance to scholars of imperialism and of the region's past. It tells the story of what happened when the British Empire and Bedouin communities met on the desert frontiers between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. It traces the workings of the resulting practices of 'desert administration' from their origins in the wake of one World War to their eclipse after the next, as British officials, Bedouin shaykhs, and nationalist politicians jostled to influence desert affairs.Drawn to the commanding heights of political society in the region's towns and cities, historians have tended to afford frontier 'margins' merely marginal treatment. Instead, this volume combines the study of imperialism, nomads, and the desert itself to reveal the centrality of 'desert administration' to the working of Britain's empire, repositioning neglected frontier areas as nerve centres of imperial activity. British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question ' leads the shift in historians' attentions from the familiar, urban seats of power to the desert 'hinterlands' that have long been obscured.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198729310
ISBN-10: 0198729316
Pagini: 338
Ilustrații: 5 maps, 6 black and white halftones
Dimensiuni: 148 x 223 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Historical Monographs

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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In this interesting, thoroughly researched, and very thought-provoking book, Robert Fletcher explores the phenomenon of 'the Tribal Question': an empire-wide debate over the nature of nomadism, the future of arid environments, and the challenges both posed to the perpetuation of British rule.
a valuable contribution ... Its broad, deep, and insightful survey ... thus enriches the historiography of the British Empire and, by extension, of the critical period of state formation in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire ... it adds nuance, detail, and context to our knowledge of Britain's brief imperial adventure in the deserts of the modern Middle East.
Robert Fletcher's excellent book is an important and highly original contribution ... Drawing on an impressive range of archival research, he argues convincingly that the British empire's desert corridor, which ran from Egypt to Iraq, was a critically important transnational zone of British imperial power ... His book provides one of the first attempts to delve into the nitty-gritty of interwar imperial power across the Middle East.
A vibrant and critical re-evaluation of British Middle East imperial policy ... Fletcher's contributions greatly enhance not only our understanding of the Middle East during the interwar era of the twentieth-century, but he also provides an essential framework for analysing the contemporary twenty-first century conflicts now unfolding in Syria and Iraq. Clearly this book is an important and substantive work that belongs on the shelves of every academic library. At the same time, it should be included in the class syllabi of courses on recent Middle East history and politics and read by every individual interested in contemporary Middle East policy development.
A marvellous piece of work ... Fletcher genuinely manages to help us see the interwar empire in a new way
Fletcher's detailed and thoughtful account of British desert administrators fills in the picture of Bedouin life between the wars, as well as alerting readers to the complexity of colonial governance, and thus is a valuable contribution to the literature of the desert.
In this fascinating book, Robert Fletcher offers an innovative approach to the study of the British Empire in general and British colonialism in the Middle East in particular during the inter-war period ... Fletcher's book represents a remarkable intellectual enterprise. Scholars of British imperialism and British rule in the Middle East in the inter-war period will greatly benefit from its findings and insights. It is to be hoped that it will receive the attention it deserves.

Notă biografică

Robert Fletcher grew up in Colchester, Essex, and studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. Between 2005 and 2007 he worked in Tokushima, Japan, before returning to Magdalen to read for a doctorate. He has held appointments as a Research Fellow of Nuffield College, the Fleet Fellow at Princeton University, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global History at the University of Oxford, and as Lecturer in Imperial and Global History at the University of Exeter. He joined the University of Warwick in 2015. His research combines an interest in the history of empires, nomadic peoples and desert environments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work on both arid and maritime frontiers has appeared in Past and Present and The English Historical Review.