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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crouzet, Guillemette, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

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

Great Britain.

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

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

Persian Gulf Region.

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

The "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. In Inventing the Middle East Guillemette Crouzet charts the spatial, political, and cultural emergence of the Middle East, not in the twentieth century but in the nineteenth.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures and Maps

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

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

3 Maps and Surveys: The Geographical Invention of the British Gulf

4 The Globalization of the Gulf Economy

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

6 The Gulf in the Age of New Imperialism

Conclusion

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Crouzet, Guillemette Inventing the Middle East

ISBN:

9780228015000

0228015006

9780228015017

0228015014

OCLC:

1345587586