Inventing the Middle East – Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global I…
Inventing the Middle EastBritain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism\nAuthor(s): Guillemette Crouzet\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228014058, 978-0228014058\nSynopsis\nThe Middle East has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. 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.\n\nGuillemette Crouzet offers a new account in Inventing the Middle East. 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. Encroachment into the Gulf region began under the expansionist East India Company. It was catalyzed by Napoleons invasion of Egypt and heightened by gunboat attacks c.
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