Kingmakers : the invention of the modern Middle East / Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Karl E. (Karl Ernest), 1928-2019.

Contributor:

Brysac, Shareen Blair.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--History--20th century.

Middle East.

History.

Physical Description:

507 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2008]

Contents:

Map of the Middle East 10

Prologue: The Ever-Growing Egg 17

1 The Proconsul / Lord Cromer 29

2 The Empire's Power Couple / Dame Flora Shaw, Lord Frederick Lugard 59

3 "Dr. Weizmann, It's a Boy!" / Sir Mark Sykes 94

4 The Acolyte / A. T. Wilson 127

5 "Dreadfully Occupied in Making Kings and Governments" / Gertrude Bell 157

6 The Frenzy of Renown / T. E. Lawrence 193

7 The Apostate / H. S. J. B. Philby 226

8 "A Splendid Little Army" / Glubb Pasha 259

9 A Very British Coup: General Ironside and the Three Percys (Sirs Cox, Sykes, and Loraine) 293

10 The Quiet American / Kermit Roosevelt 322

11 The Apprentice Sorcerer / Miles Copeland 348

12 The Man Who Knew Too Much / Paul Wolfowitz 381

Epilogue: Echoes in a Long Corridor 411.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-483) and index.

ISBN:

9780393061994

039306199X

OCLC:

181139391