Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism Crouzet Guillemette
Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism Crouzet Guillemette The "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world…
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Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism Crouzet Guillemette
The "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. The book traces the idea of the Middle East to a century-long British imperial zenith in the Indian subcontinent and its violent overspill into the Persian Gulf and its hinterlands. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region, commonly understood to have emerged in the twentieth century after World War I.Guillemette Crouzet offers a new account in Inventing the Middle East.
It was catalyzed by Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and heightened by gunboat attacks conducted in the name of pacifying Arab "pirates." Throughout the 1800s the British secured this crucial geopolitical arena, transforming it into both a crossroads of land and sea and a Encroachment into the Gulf region began under the expansionist East India Company.
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