Inventing the Middle East : Britain and the Persian Gulf in the age of global imperialism / Guillemette Crouzet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crouzet, Guillemette, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Standardized Title:

Genèses du Moyen-Orient. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Persian Gulf Region--History--19th century.

Persian Gulf Region.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

British--Persian Gulf Region--History--19th century.

British.

Persian Gulf Region--Strategic aspects--History--19th century.

Persian Gulf Region--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Persian Gulf Region.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Asia--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.

Contents:

Edge of Empire: Britain, the East India Company, and Early Interventions in the Gulf

"Pax Britannica" in the Gulf? Strategies for Indirect Rule, 1810-1853

Maps and Surveys: The Geographical Invention of the British Gulf

The Globalization of the Gulf Economy

Passages to India: Mesopotamia and the Gulf in British Imperial Imaginaries

The Gulf in the Age of New Imperialism.

Notes:

Revised version of the French book: Genèses du Moyen-Orient: le golfe Persique à l'âge des impérialismes (vers 1800-vers 1914).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Dec 1st, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Crouzet, Guillemette. Genèses du Moyen-Orient. English. Inventing the Middle East.

ISBN:

9780228015000

0228015006

9780228015017

0228015014

Publisher Number:

40031566724

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.