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Britain's departure from Aden and South Arabia : without glory but without disaster / edited by Noel Brehony and Clive Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Middle Eastern 7 Islamic Studies at Gerlach Press.
- Middle Eastern 7 Islamic Studies at Gerlach Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postcolonialism--Arabian Peninsula.
- Postcolonialism.
- History.
- Relations.
- Great Britain--Relations--Arabian Peninsula.
- Great Britain.
- Arabian Peninsula--Relations--Great Britain.
- Arabian Peninsula.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Asia.
- Colonies.
- Asia.
- Yemen (People's Democratic Republic)--History.
- Yemen (People's Democratic Republic).
- Yemen (Republic).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Gerlach Press, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Aden and the Federation: Betrayal, Bad Judgement or just Bad Luck?
- Britain and South Arabia: Containing Contradictions
- Notes
- 1 The British Withdrawal from South Arabia
- Bibliography
- 2 Britain's Security Response: Was the Protectorate Aden's Shield or Achilles Heel?
- 3 'The Present Drift of Events Makes One Feel Extremely Embittered and Depressed': The British Exit
- Early Signs of Trouble
- The Mahra Sultanate
- Collapse of Order
- Exodus
- Conclusion
- Interviews
- 4 Breaking Promises and Betraying Friends? Reflections on the British Withdrawal from Aden
- 5 A Federal Panacea? British Policy and the Idea of a South Arabian Federal State, 1952-63
- 6 The South Arabian Army
- A Poisoned Chalice?
- 7 Operation Salah al-Din: The Egyptian Intelligence Service and its Role in the Clandestine War
- The EIS as a Key Tool of Nasser's Foreign Policy
- Operation Salah al-Din: Key Leaders and Key Objectives
- The EIS Look to the Arab Nationalist Movement as its Vehicle
- Taiz Becomes the EIS and NLF HQ
- EIS Train NLF Recruits in Taiz
- Special Forces Training College in Egypt
- The Role of Radio in Operation Salah al-Din
- EIS Sets up al-Baydah as a Forward Operating Base
- The Aftermath of 1967
- Evaluating the Contribution of the EIS
- 8 Waiting for Labour: Alec Douglas-Home, Lyndon Johnson and the Challenge of South West Arabia
- Anglo-American Relations and the Middle East
- US Policy Towards South-West Arabia
- A Meeting of Minds?
- Bibliography
- 9 Between Withdrawal and Greater Engagement: The Aden Abandonment and its Impacts on British Policy
- Setting the Stage
- British Government Policy
- Cross Border Raids
- Omani Statebuilding, the Aden Connection
- 10 Managing and Mismanaging Departure: The South Arabian Federation and the United Arab Emirates
- 11 South Yemen after the British
- Relations with the UK under the Socialist Regime
- The Socialist Regime (1967-1990)
- Unification and the Saleh Regime
- Re-emergence of Southern Identity and Separatism from 2007 onwards
- The War and the Emergence of the Southern Transitional Council
- About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 07, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 3959940831
- 9783959940832
- Publisher Number:
- 99985464397
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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