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Genèses du Moyen-Orient

Autor: Guillemette Crouzet

Número de Páginas: 765

Au tout début du XXe siècle fut inventé ce « Moyen-Orient » qui aujourd’hui semble se défaire dans le sang sous nos yeux. Or, c’est du côté des Indes que l’on doit chercher l’origine de cette construction géographique, du côté des Indes parce que le « Moyen-Orient » est alors conçu comme l’ensemble des territoires gardant l’approche de l’Empire anglo-indien face aux menaces ottomanes, russes, françaises et allemandes. Mais cette invention ne peut se comprendre à la lumière des seuls enjeux politiques et économiques de l’âge des impérialismes. Elle procède d’une lente genèse qui eut, à partir de 1809, pour cadre l’aventure britannique dans le Golfe Arabo-Persique.L’impérialisme britannique et anglo-indien, actif tout au long du XIXe siècle dans les eaux et sur les rivages de la péninsule Arabique, de la Perse et du nord de l’océan Indien, est au cœur de l’ouvrage de Guillemette Crouzet. Par la violence mise en œuvre contre des « pirates » accusés de perturber la libre circulation des biens et des hommes, par une politique systématique de traités conclus avec les pouvoirs locaux, par des grandes entreprises cartographiques...

The End of Empire in the Gulf

Autor: Tancred Bradshaw

Número de Páginas: 212

With the end of the British Raj in 1947, the Foreign Office replaced the Government of India as the department responsible for the Persian Gulf, and would proceed to manage relations with the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates, UAE) until British withdrawal in 1971. This work is a comprehensive history of British policy in the region during that period, situated for the first time in its broad historical and political context. Tancred Bradshaw – an academic historian with extensive experience in the region – sheds light onto the discovery of oil in Abu Dhabi in the 1950s, Foreign Office attempts to instigate a long-term development policy in the region, the slow end of the British Empire, the origins of the UAE and – most importantly – the British legacy in this geopolitically crucial region today. The book relies on 40,000 pages of archival material, much of it previously unused, and will be of interest to Imperial historians, as well as anyone working on the history and politics of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.

Bahrain's Surviving Dynasty

Autor: Mohamed Matar

Número de Páginas: 175

The Al Khalifa of Bahrain is a long-standing dynasty that has established dispute resolution measures to overcome intra-tribal ambitions for power and wealth, replacing extra-constitutional rulership succession with primogeniture. Since their control over Bahrain began in 1783 until the British withdrawal from the Gulf in 1971, the Al Khalifa introduced ten senior ruling shaykhs, seven of whom experienced turbulent successions, and faced in-house rivalries and power-seeking disputes. This book provides valuable insights into how the Al Khalifa tribe managed to shape and maintain their patrimonial rule for over 240 years, ultimately emerging as one of the most prevailing and enduring royal families in the region today. It delves into their strategies and tactics for overcoming local contexts, external challenges, and intra-tribal rivalries. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in the history and politics of Bahrain and the Gulf region.

Belonging on Both Shores

Autor: Lindsey R. Stephenson

Número de Páginas: 273

For most of their history, the people around the Persian Gulf littoral were socially intertwined and economically interdependent. But the twentieth century ushered in nationalization projects, British imperial intervention, and border regulations, all of which posed challenges to everyday mobility in this oceanic world. Those crossing the water became the primary foil for bordering spaces, restricting and regulating movement, and defining difference more generally. Belonging on Both Shores tells the story of people's struggles to move freely between Iran and the Arab shores of the Gulf as the unregulated mobility that had characterized everyday life in the nineteenth century was increasingly policed in the twentieth. Using a wide range of Arabic, Persian, and English sources, Lindsey Stephenson demonstrates how state officials refined notions of territorial belonging against the movement of Iranians, the most visible mobile "group" in the Persian Gulf arena. Engaging migrant voices, Stephenson narrates how Iranians challenged a perceived requirement to belong to a single place and highlights the techniques these migrants employed to remain connected to both shores. Tracing the...

The East India Company in Persia

Autor: Peter Good

Número de Páginas: 225

In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city's own overlord, Nader Shah. After the violent overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and subsequent foreign invasions from all sides, Persia had been in constant turmoil. One well-appointed house that belonged to the East India Company had been saved from destruction by the ingenuity of a Company servant, Danvers Graves, and his knowledge of the Company's privileges in Persia. This book explores the lived experience of the Company and its trade in Persia and how it interacted with power structures and the local environment in a time of great upheaval in Persian history. Using East India Company records and other sources, it charts the role of the Navy and commercial fleet in the Gulf, trade agreements, and the experience of Company staff, British and non-British living in and navigating conditions in 18th-century Persia. By examining the social, commercial and diplomatic history of this relationship, this book creates a new paradigm for the study of Early Modern interactions in the Indian Ocean.

British Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968

Autor: Helene Von Bismarck

Número de Páginas: 373

An in-depth analysis of Great Britain's policy in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region during the last years of British imperialism in the area, covering the period from the independence of Kuwait to the decision of the Wilson Government to withdraw from the Gulf.

Laws of the State of Maryland

Autor: Maryland

Número de Páginas: 1040

Includes extraordinary and special sessions.

Toni Onley

Autor: Toni Onley , Roger Boulet , Kamloops Art Gallery

Número de Páginas: 88

Catalogue of posthumous exhibition of watercolours, oils, lithographs and etchings made during visits to Canadian Arctic.

Virginia Woolf et les écritures du moi

Autor: Frédérique Amselle

Número de Páginas: 290

Cet ouvrage s'intéresse aux cinq textes qui constituent Moments of being, au journal de jeunesse The early diaries, ainsi qu'à Carlyle's house and other sketches. Situer ces textes dans l'espace générique des écritures du moi implique une tentative de définition du genre, préalable à la mise en perspective de l'œuvre woolfienne au sein de ce genre.

Entre la integración y la fragmentación regional

Autor: Julio Pinto

Número de Páginas: 228

List of Members - Cambridge University

Autor: University Of Cambridge

Número de Páginas: 1664

Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper

Número de Páginas: 408

Covers the period from 1790 to 1905 in The Times of London.

Cambridge University List of Members

Autor: University Of Cambridge

Número de Páginas: 1432

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