Spies in Arabia : the Great War and the cultural foundations of Britain's covert empire in the Middle East / Priya Satia.

  • Satia, Priya
Date:
2008
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Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Physical description

xiii, 458 pages : map ; 25 cm

Contents

Introduction -- War and hope. The foundations of covert empire ; The cultural world of the Edwardian agent ; The failure of empiricism and how the agents addressed it ; Cunning in war ; Imperial expiation -- Peace and terror. Official conspiracy theories and the wagers of genius ; Air control ; Covert empire ; Seeing like a democracy -- Conclusion.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-441) and index.

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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

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